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Nationality: French Type: Mathematician Born: March 31, 1596 Death: February 11, 1650 |
“For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.”
“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”