Rene Descartes Math Quotations

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

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.

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

Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

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