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"Therefore if someone wishes seriously to investigate the truth about things, they should not choose some particular science, because all the sciences are interconnected and dependent on each other."

(kenan thompson voice) that's really nice...!

girl they had a whole 30+ yrs to lose the manuscript LOL...

"This rule [of motion]... depends only on the fact that God conserves each thing by a continuous action, and therefore he does not conserve it as it may have been some time previously, but precisely as it is at the very instant that he conserves it."

he is... really losing me here lolll

"...the motion I suppose follows the same laws of nature... [including] those [the learned] call 'qualitates reales' (their real qualities) in which, I frankly confess, I cannot find any more reality in the others."

ok lowk why is he so funny in his asides tho lmao

my eyes r like fully glazing over at all of this elements mumbo jumbo LOL... also again. why do we hate vacuums so much

what did vacuums ever do to natural philosophers...

"I am sufficiently convinced, I claim, by my arguments about this point, but this is not the appropriate occasion to tell you them."

lowkey "it came to be in a dream" type shit 😭

my guy w the double "i.e." in a single sentence...

"When someone says: 'I am breathing, therefore I am,' ... they do not deduce anything, because it would be necessary first to have proved that it is true that they are breathing."

i just laughed so hard omfg. u just activated descartes's trap card