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Mathematicians are born, not made.

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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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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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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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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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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
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It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.
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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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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
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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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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
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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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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 mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
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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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...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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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
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