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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
Henri Poincare
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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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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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Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think
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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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The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
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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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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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Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
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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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Zero is the number of objects that satisfy a condition that is never satisfied. But as never means in no case, I do not see that any progress has been made.
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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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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them.
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Mathematicians are born, not made.
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour, both conscious and subconscious.
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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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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 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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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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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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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
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