Girolamo Cardano Quotes on Knowledge
Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576), the Milanese physician, mathematician, and natural philosopher, was one of the most prolific Renaissance polymaths and the author of the autobiographical De Vita Propria. The major philosophical works — De Subtilitate (1550) and De Rerum Varietate (1557) — present a Renaissance natural philosophy in which mathematical, astrological, medical, and metaphysical inquiry are systematically interconnected, and the Liber de ludo aleae gave the first systematic treatment of probability. The framework exemplifies the polymathic conception of natural knowledge that the seventeenth century would partition into the specialized disciplines of the modern sciences.
Quotes
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Attributed to Girolamo Cardano:
“Mathematics governs nature.”
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Attributed to Girolamo Cardano:
“Astrology is a discipline; philosophy is a way of life.”
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Attributed to Girolamo Cardano:
“There is in nature a subtlety that escapes our coarsest categories.”
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“The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.”
Gerolamo Cardano (around 1560). Liber de ludo aleae . -
“Gerolamo Cardano (around 1560). Liber de ludo aleae .”
The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all. -
“Better it is to have the worst, than none at all. for example we see, that houses are nedefull, such as can not possese & stately pallaces of stone, do persuade themselves to dwell in houses of timber and clap, and wanting them, are contented to inhabite the simple cotage, yea rather than not to be housed at all refuse not the pore cabbon, and most beggerly cave. So necessarie is this gift of consolacion, as there livith no man, but that hathe cause to embrace it. for in these things better is it to have any than none at al.”
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“I am cold of heart, warm of brain, and given to never-ending meditation; I ponder over ideas, many and weighty, and even over things which can never come to pass.”
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“I have accustomed my features always to assume an expression quite contrary to my feelings; thus I am able to feign outwardly, yet within know nothing of dissumulation. This habit is easy if compared to the practice of hoping for nothing , which I have bent my efforts toward acquiring for fifteen successive years, and have at last succeeded.”
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“My personal affairs are not as highly esteemed as men commonly value their own interests—vain, empty affairs like those great clouds seen in the wake of the sunset which are meaningless and soon pass away .”
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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.”
The Great Rules of Algebra(1968)