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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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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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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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The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
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Zero is the number of objects that satisfy a condition that is never satisfied. But as never means in no case, I do not see that any progress has been made.
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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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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The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.
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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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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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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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Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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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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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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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.
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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
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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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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
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