Felix, Qui Potuit Rerum Cognoscere Causas - Uses

Uses

This sentence is often written with a present tense instead of the past tense: “Felix, qui potest rerum cognoscere causas” (“Fortunate is he, who is able to know the causes of things”). Translators have also often added the adjective "hid" or "hidden" to qualify the causes. The latter half of the phrase, "rerum cognoscere causas", is the motto of the London School of Economics, the University of Sheffield, Humberside Collegiate, the University of Guelph, Hill Park Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario, the Science National Honor Society, the Royal Military College of Science, the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel and the Romanian National Defence College . The phrase is engraved in the stone bust of Clodomiro Picado Twight in the University of Costa Rica, in San Pedro. It can also be seen in the opening pages of Inverting the Pyramid by sports journalist Jonathan Wilson.