“It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.” ScienceIntelligenceRulesOverviewApplicationsDeductionFermatPierre De Fermat Author:René Descartes
“Clearly divine grace and natural knowledge never diminish liberty, but rather increase and strengthen it.” ScienceFreedomLibertyKnowledgeGraceTheologyGrace Of God Book:Meditations on First Philosophy Source: Meditations on First Philosophy
“I fully recognize that all certainty and truth in science depend only on a knowledge of the true God, so much so that, before I knew Him, I could have no perfect knowledge of anything else. But now I am able to understand innumerable things completely and clearly, about both God Himself and other intellectual matters, as well as about all those things in corporeal nature that are objects of study in pure mathematics.” GodTruthScienceKnowledgeMathematicsClarityImperfectionAbstract Thinking Book:Meditations on First Philosophy Source: Meditations on First Philosophy