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It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.
Henri Poincare
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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.
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Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to resemble as little as possible honest functions which serve some purpose.
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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
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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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