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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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Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.
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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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When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be in possession of the whole reality, that indefinable something that constitutes the unity ... Now pure logic cannot give us this view of the whole it is to intuition that we must look for it.
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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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But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.
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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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Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
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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.
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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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Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them.
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A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
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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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Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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