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Since this art surpasses all human subtelty and the perspecuity of mortal talent and is truly a celestial gift and a very clear test of the capacity of man's minds, whoever applies himself to it will believe that there is nothing that he cannot understand.

— Gerolamo Cardano The Great Rules of Algebra (1968)

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Better it is to have the worst, than none at all.

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I am able to admit two distinct trains of thought to my mind at the same time.

For as positio refers to a line, quadratum to the surface, and cubum to a solid body, it would be very foolish for us to go beyond this point. Nature does no permit it.

The Great Rules of Algebra (1968)

Yet I avoid this practice in the presence of my benefactors and of my superiors.

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