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re: Yes! And he's very popular! But Descartes !!!
Raoul — (archived)

Popular because the language is the same..

But let me tell you a search I made on the web, once...

Farouk El Baz (the geologist who trained the Apollo astronauts) once wrote on a board (before Apollo 16)r: There is nothing so far remote that cannot be reached, nothing so hidden that cannot be found....claiming it was a Descartes quote....

Ok, so I decided to search where he found it....
I started to search and got this..
Ahaa Discours de la méthode and the right sentence in english is reprinted to pinpoint where....Part2!
Then I did a search in french using this time the words in french. I had to read both texts and realized the quote was hidden inside a very long sentence plus the fact that his french was unfamiliar.
I did not use those texts shown here, but it took some time, then!
Internet got another perspective..but so did my phone bill (at the time, I wasn't on the cable for the internet).

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