With me, everything turns into mathematics.
René Descartes
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With me everything turns into mathematics.
[Fr., Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.]
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RENé DESCARTES I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of ...
RENé DESCARTES I think; therefore I am.
RENé DESCARTES If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt...
RENé DESCARTES Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENé DESCARTES So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along ...
RENé DESCARTES Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)
RENé DESCARTES And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it...
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RENé DESCARTES ...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater al...
RENé DESCARTES ...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.
RENé DESCARTES But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENé DESCARTES Masked, I advance.
RENé DESCARTES It cannot be denied that he RENé DESCARTES Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENé DESCARTES ...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.
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RENé DESCARTES Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.
(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")
RENé DESCARTES It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceiv...
RENé DESCARTES [...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a lar...
RENé DESCARTES The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be c...
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RENé DESCARTES At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opini...
RENé DESCARTES Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would ...
RENé DESCARTES For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort t...
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RENé DESCARTES Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everythin...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI Paranoia turns everything into poison, devours its host then salivates the people around it.
JOHN B. BEJO And the bar tender says to Renee Descartes, "Another beer?" And Descartes says, "I think not," and d...
ALFRED BESTER Descartes useless and uncertain.
BLAISE PASCAL The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the m...
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.
OPRAH WINFREY The mathematics faculty were encouraging me to shift into mathematics as my major and explaining to ...
JOHN NASH It begins with the Impossible & turns into the Unforgettable.
GARETH DEGIORGIO Love turns hate into frustration, and hate turns love into hope.
SIDDHARTH KONKIMALLA When passion blends with profession it turns into a masterpiece...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Everything government touches turns to crap.
RINGO STARR Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
NANCY REAGAN One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thin...
PAUL WOLFOWITZ I just hope everything turns out fine.
ANDREW SPENCE Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dung...
JESSE JACKSON turns bad into good.
BETTY FORD An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thin...
LAWRENCE R. KLEIN Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it se...
LANCE GROSS The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY Now with social media, people essentially come into my living room, my virtual living room, and tell...
JEN LANCASTER Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive.
ABBY MOREL Boys turns girls into such idiots.
STEPHANIE PERKINS Necessity turns boss into a beggar.
AMIT KALANTRI The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the m...
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, w...
ERIC HOFFER Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.
ALEC BALDWIN Everything turns, rotates, spins, circles, loops, pulsates, resonates, and repeats.
SUZY KASSEM When God touches you, everything you touch turns to gold.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There's signals for just about everything from balancing your stroke, to getting a swimmer more into...
NANCY HINRICHS By offering Women in Mathematics Day, we wanted to encourage girls to study mathematics and science ...
CAROL JACOBS It is really puzzling because we have grade-by-grade content standards in both reading and mathemati...
MICHAEL KIRST If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.
PATTON OSWALT Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'.
PAM BROWN Writing turns everybody into wussies. Everybody quits.
PAUL T. SCHEURING Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers.
KEVIN KEENOO Anger turns a man into a beast
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Prayer turns problems into promises and possibilities.
LORI NAWYN Shopping turns me off.
TEA LEONI Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
HERBERT WESTREN TURNBULL Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
BERTOLT BRECHT Cunnilingus is a girl’s best friend. Cunnilingus is life. Everything else is just waiting. An orga...
CHLOE THURLOW Day drag." Ashley answered simply. "The sun turns vampires into dust and drag queens into this." He ...
KYLE ADAMS A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
THOMAS FULLER Isn't it strange how life turns into melodrama?
ALAN MOORE She turns the cast into high-kicking seniors.
MARI DIETZ You look at the lights, and it seems like everything is green, and then it turns to a burnt orange. ...
BRENNAN GARR Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns
CARDINAL RETZ Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.
CARDINAL DE RETZ Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns
CARDINAL DE RETZ Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embar...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ But when does something's destiny finally come to fruition? Is the plant complete when it flowers? W...
LEONARD KOREN I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the math...
ALAIN BADIOU 'I think therefore I am'--revised--I love therefore I am
KARIN SHIMOYAMA Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
ANTON CHEKHOV If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.
HARUO SHIRANE A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
GEORGE HERBERT Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
MARY KAY BLAKELY French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
STEPHEN KING Nurture your passion till it turns into a reality.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA God turns past messes into glorious present day messages!
VERONICA S. MCCOY Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Nothing is useless to the man of sense, he turns everything to account
CHARLES FONTAINE Music is what turns me on!
KAREN MULDER The power of classical music turns my words into fire.
A.D. POSEY This new layer turns every distributor into yet another owner.
JAMES LOVE If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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