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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
Henri Poincare
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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living
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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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Ideas rose in clouds I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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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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Mathematicians are born, not made.
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I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step the idea came to me, without anything in my former thoughts seeming to have paved the way for it, that the transformations I had used to define the Fuchsian functions were identical with non-Euclidean geometry.
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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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Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. Content to them is irrelevant: they are interested in form only.
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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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Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.
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All of mathematics is a tale about groups.
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The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.
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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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