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Topic: Rene Descartes

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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Sir Walter Raleigh,  Albert Einstein
Intelligence:Genius
Personality:Philosophical,  Analytical
Favorite artist(s):Rembrandt
Favorite explorer(s):Francis Drake
Favorite book(s):Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Favorite great leader(s):Oliver Cromwell
Interest(s):Maths
Favorite great thinker(s):Thomas Hobbes,  Christian Huygens,  Blaise Pascal
Favorite philosopher(s):Descartes,  Spinoza,  Hobbes
Favorite political figure(s):Oliver Cromwell
Favorite quote(s):"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." - Henry Kissinger (1923-)
 
 
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

Rene Descartes  Sub-regional partnerships in the North East, such as the TVP, are to be accorded by ONE prominence in the efforts to regenerate the region.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

Rene Descartes was a gifted mathematician who invented analytic geometry.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Rene Descartes, the brilliant French mathematician, is commissioned by the pope in 1619 to come up with a proof of the existence of God.
Skepticism, Rene Descartes' 300-year-old philosophical insight, is strangely relevant to computer security at the turn of the millennium.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

"Rene Descartes is often considered the father of modernity in that he begins with the self as the source of certainty rather than beginning with the certainty of the cosmos or of God.
Rene Descartes, in his Meditations Upon The First Philosophy , pointed out that our senses are far from trustworthy.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

Rene Descartes - short discussion of the main outlines of the thought of Rene Descartes.
Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker

Rene Descartes lived from 1596-1650.
Billie Kirgan,
Machinist

Rene Descartes, a paradigmatic intellectualist, sought an indubitable standard capable of terminating the regress of argument, without need for a dogmatic commitment.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Descartes, Rene (1596-1650) French philosopher Aimed for a unitary universal science using geometrical method.
Rene Descartes showed a relationship between algebraic equations and geometric figures.
It was Rene Descartes, the inventor of that coordinate system and the inventor of analytical geometry— who was also a philosopher and a Christian.
 
 
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