“But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.”

Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?

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

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt

Masked, I advance.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance

All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.

Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation

I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.

But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.

He who hid well, lived well.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

One should never judge anything unless it is known

That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.

Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

Always hated maths but now I can’t stop counting self-worth in numbers.