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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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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.
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What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that it is one that can be understood by the pupils.
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Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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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 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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Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.
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Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.
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Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
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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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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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Ideas rose in clouds I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
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Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new it alone can give us certainty.
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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 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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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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How is error possible in mathematics?
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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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