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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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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
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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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It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.
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How is error possible in mathematics?
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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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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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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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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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