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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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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
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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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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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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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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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One geometry cannot be more true than another it can only be more convenient.
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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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All of mathematics is a tale about groups.
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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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How is error possible in mathematics?
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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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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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Mathematicians are born, not made.
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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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Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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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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