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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. Now, they invent them deliberately just to invalidate our ancestors' reasoning, and that is all they are ever going to get out of them.
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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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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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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
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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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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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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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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
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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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The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.
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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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Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.
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