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Mathematicians are born, not made.
Henri Poincare
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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics? But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness? Man, then, can not be happy through science but today he can much less be happy without it.
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Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer.
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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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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
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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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One geometry cannot be more true than another it can only be more convenient.
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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.
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When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.
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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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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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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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. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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Ideas rose in clouds I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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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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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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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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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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