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Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.

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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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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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The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
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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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Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
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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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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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How is error possible in mathematics?
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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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Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think
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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies it can create nothing new not from it alone can any science issue.
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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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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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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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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
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It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
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