Descartes

Good old Descartes thought so much that ... he was.

By freeing thought from its object, Descartes made it possible to view the latter in strictly mechanical terms, reopening the way to science, suffocated for more than fifteen centuries under religious nonsense.

Aristotle and Descartes are the only philosophers who are smarter than all of their disciples.

Descartes thought that the mind and body were joined in the pineal gland.

"Meditations" is a work by Descartes.

"I think, therefore I am," said René Descartes.

For Newton, as for Boyle and Descartes, there were laws of nature only because there had been a (Divine) Legislator.

According to Tom, the theory of evolution by random mutations and natural selection is not convincing for several reasons, the most important of which is the existence of DNA. Among other unacceptable points, Tom adds, this theory claims that the human mind – Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Shakespeare, Descartes, Da Vinci, Mozart, Einstein, Darwin himself – evolved from the mind of an unidentified primate, which would be our ancestor.

This is a reference to the famous saying of Descartes.

"Metaphysical Meditations" is a work by Descartes.