The best Quotes by René Descartes

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The best Quotes by René Descartes

René Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.

Cogito, ergo sum. I think; therefore I am.

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Thinking Latin Phrases

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

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Stockholm's a wonderful city if you love food - it's spectacular!

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

Andy Warhol

Stockholm McDonald's Moscow Florence

The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.

Richard Edelman

Stockholm London Chicago Seoul Tokyo

Wild horses couldn't drag me away from a summer on the Stockholm archipelago.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

Janine di Giovanni

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Stockholm - which is kinda the same.

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Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

Hikaru Nakamura

People spend more time talking than thinking.

Till Lindemann

Thinking Talking

What an artist dies in me!
[Qualis artifex pereo.]

Nero - last words

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Last Words Latin Phrases

"Semper paratus." "It's Latin," Shane said. "It means 'Always ready'."

Harlan Coben in Fool Me Once

Things never happen the same way twice.

C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia

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Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different...

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Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

Robert Oppenheimer

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Optimism Pessimism

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Robert Oppenheimer

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Nuclear Weapons

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

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Knowledge Intelligence

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

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Intelligence Silence

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Experience Failures & Mistakes

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

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Life Motivation

Ideas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.

Alexander von Humboldt

Nature has to be felt.

Alexander von Humboldt

Nature & Environment

I am not the least afraid to die.

Charles Darwin - last words - April 19th 1882

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Death Last Words

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin

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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

Richard Feynman

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Richard Feynman

Religion Science Doubt

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

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Reason & Sanity Imagination

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

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Foolishness Technology Generations

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Wheeler

Knowledge Science

The best way to learn something is to have to teach it.

John Wheeler

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

Erwin Schrödinger

Quantum Mechanics

The present is the only thing that has no end.

Erwin Schrödinger

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

Werner Heisenberg

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Science Atheism

If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

Werner Heisenberg

Nuclear Weapons

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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