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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
Henri Poincare
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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.
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Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
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Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think
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Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them.
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Mathematicians are born, not made.
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Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
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If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics? But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness? Man, then, can not be happy through science but today he can much less be happy without it.
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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
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Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
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Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer.
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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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