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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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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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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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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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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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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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Ideas rose in clouds I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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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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The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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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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Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses and imagination but one had but a rough picture and not a precise idea on which reasoning could take hold.
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Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.
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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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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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Mathematicians are born, not made.
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Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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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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