Influencing Future Science
The most important influence, however, was the first precept, which states, in Descartes words," never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such".
This method of pro-foundational skepticism is considered by some to be the start of modern philosophy.
Read more about this topic: Discourse On The Method
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“Do you believe that the dead can influence the living?... Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from the other side of death?... There is such a one.... Someone, something that reaches out from beyond the grave and fills me with horrible impulses.”
—Garrett Fort (1900–1945)
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—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking, love has found. Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short to the spirits everything speaks.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)