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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.
Henri Poincare
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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.
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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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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, “Science for Science's sake” is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts, since they are practically infinite in number. We must make a selection. Is it not better to be guided by utility, by our practical, and more especially our moral, necessities?
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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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How is error possible in mathematics?
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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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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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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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...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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Ideas rose in clouds I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
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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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. . . 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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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
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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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Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.
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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
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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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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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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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