Rene Descartes Quotes

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

Rene Descartes

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• I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • You
  • Know
  • Deserve

• I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • School
  • Home
  • Book

• Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Design
  • Shoes
  • Create

• There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Black
  • Financial
  • Potential

• The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Christian
  • Christ
  • Superior

• The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • First
  • Year
  • Open

• Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Better
  • Nothing
  • Dancers

• I put my foot in my mouth sometimes. I'll be the first to admit it.

  

  Wale
  • Sometimes
  • Mouth
  • Admit

• When you model for a show, you get this real sense of adrenaline. It's difficult when the shoes are so high - that part's quite scary - but you just have to do it.

  

  Ymre Stiekema
  • Real
  • High
  • Model

• The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Professional
  • Sense
  • Irish

• I painted a painting called 'Milk River' in 1963 Cows don't give milk if they don't have grass and water Tremendous meaning of that is that painters can't give anything to the observer. People get what they need from a painting. The painter need not die because of responsibility. When you have inspiration and represent inspirationThe observer makes the painting.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Painting
  • Inspiration
  • Painters

• Do you think anybody knows that I'm Irish?

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Thinking
  • Irish

• Men are kids at heart. They want to be nourished and pet like a dog.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Kids

• So, you wouldn't marry me." "Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!" "Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other---" Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Question

• in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • World
  • Great
  • Real

• The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward

  

  G. Campbell Morgan
  • Life
  • Prayer

• Every inch of the way, the drug has shown its safety, and each of the groups here and certainly us have been satisfied with the safety.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Way
  • Safety
  • Drug

• Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Book
  • Strange

• A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?

  

  Christina Stead
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Single

• Once you've said to yourself, "But I'm not using my physics in my house," or "I'm not using my ecology in my garden, I've never applied it to what I do," it's like something physical moves inside your brain. Suddenly you say, "If I did apply what I know to how I live, that would be miraculous!" Then the whole thing unrolls like one great carpet. Undo one knot, and the whole thing just rolls downhill.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Physics
  • Moves
  • Ecology

• In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Effort
  • Certain
  • Term

• The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.

  

  Eric Chaisson
  • Chance
  • Unique
  • Creativity

• I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • Accepted