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Rene Descartes, a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and logician, is one of the most important thinkers in the history of Western philosophy. His philosophical ideas have had a profound impact on subsequent generations, particularly for his famous proposition 'Cogito, ergo sum'. Born on March 31, 1596, Descartes died on February 11, 1650.

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“With me, everything turns into mathematics.”

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“Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.”

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“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”

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“Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.”

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“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.”

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“I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.”

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“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”

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“If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.”