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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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How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the attention of all who wish to devote themselves to education.
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A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.
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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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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour, both conscious and subconscious.
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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.
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Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new it alone can give us certainty.
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If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
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The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
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Zero is the number of objects that satisfy a condition that is never satisfied. But as never means in no case, I do not see that any progress has been made.
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Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. They reveal the kinship between other facts, long known, but wrongly believed to be strangers to one another.
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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
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But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.
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