Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Recorde

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Welsh physician Robert Recorde.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Robert Recorde was an Anglo-Welsh physician and mathematician. He invented the equals sign (=) and also introduced the pre-existing plus sign (+) to English speakers in 1557.

Welsh - Physician | 1512 - 1558

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First, you must know what the thing is, and then after learn the use of the same.

Robert Recorde

Exercise is the beste intrument in learnyng.

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

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Recorde

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