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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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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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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
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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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Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.
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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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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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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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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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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.
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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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Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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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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Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
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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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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.
Henri Poincare
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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