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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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All of mathematics is a tale about groups.
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I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step the idea came to me, without anything in my former thoughts seeming to have paved the way for it, that the transformations I had used to define the Fuchsian functions were identical with non-Euclidean geometry.
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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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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 are born, not made.
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Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
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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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One geometry cannot be more true than another it can only be more convenient.
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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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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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It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.
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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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How is error possible in mathematics?
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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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The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
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