Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.Rene Descartes
“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
— RENE DESCARTES
Philosopher and mathematician · 1596 – 1650
Rene Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy. His statement 'I think, therefore I am' and his Discourse on Method laid groundwork for rationalism, and he also created analytic geometry.
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