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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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One geometry cannot be more true than another it can only be more convenient.
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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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Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means.
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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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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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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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The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
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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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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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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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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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Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.
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Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to resemble as little as possible honest functions which serve some purpose.
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Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
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All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.
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