"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
-Rene Descartes
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"When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.“
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"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."
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