I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.


Discours touchant la méthode de la certitude et de l'art d'inventer pour finir les disputes et pour faire en peu de temps de grands progrès (1688)


I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in...

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in...

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in...

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in...