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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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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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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the attention of all who wish to devote themselves to education.
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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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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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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
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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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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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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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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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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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Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.
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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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Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means.
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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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It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places.
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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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