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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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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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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 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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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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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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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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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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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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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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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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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.
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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
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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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Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means.
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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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