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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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We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
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. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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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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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
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