Robert Recorde Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Robert Recorde
Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be enhaunsed? Why are Astronomers so greatly advanced? Because that by number such things they find, which else would farre excell mans minde. — Robert Recorde
To avoide the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to: I will settle as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of paralleles, or gemowe [twin] lines of one lengthe: =, bicause noe .2. thynges, can be moare equalle. — Robert Recorde
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them. — Robert Recorde
First, you must know what the thing is, and then after learn the use of the same. — Robert Recorde