Every age has ridiculed the one before it, and accused it of having generalized too quickly and too naively. Descartes pitied the lonians; Descartes, in his turn, makes us smile. No doubt our children will someday laugh at us.


Translated by George Bruce Halsted, Science and Hypothesis, Part IV, Chapter IX (p. 101. ), The Science Press. 1905

Henri Poincaré Quotes

Every age has ridiculed the one before it, and accused it of having generalized too quickly and too naively. Descartes pitied the lonians; Descartes, ...

Every age has ridiculed the one before it, and accused it of having generalized too quickly and too naively. Descartes pitied the lonians; Descartes, ...

Every age has ridiculed the one before it, and accused it of having generalized too quickly and too naively. Descartes pitied the lonians; Descartes, ...

Every age has ridiculed the one before it, and accused it of having generalized too quickly and too naively. Descartes pitied the lonians; Descartes, ...