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Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.
Henri Poincare
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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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More quotes by Henri Poincare
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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Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.
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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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It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.
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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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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
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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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Ideas rose in clouds I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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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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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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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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Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
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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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Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
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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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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
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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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