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Quote by Rene Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. – Rene Descartes

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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. – Rene Descartes

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Hope
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. – Rene Descartes

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

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Time
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Theres no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. – David Brin

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Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings. – Helen Keller

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The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science. – Edward Sapir

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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. – David Brin

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