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

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Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

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The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing.

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I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.

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I can establish as a general rule that all things which I perceive very clearly and distinctly are true.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

René Descartes

René Descartes
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Born: March 31, 1596
Died: February 11, 1650 (aged 53)
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