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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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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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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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All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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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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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.
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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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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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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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We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
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Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
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Mathematicians are born, not made.
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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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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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Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think
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Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies it can create nothing new not from it alone can any science issue.
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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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. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.
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