It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."
Rene DescartesMathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
Rene DescartesSo blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.
Rene Descartes