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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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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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The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
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Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.
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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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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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...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know
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Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. Content to them is irrelevant: they are interested in form only.
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All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.
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All of mathematics is a tale about groups.
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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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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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Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
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One geometry cannot be more true than another it can only be more convenient.
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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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But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.
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We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
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