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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.
Henri Poincare
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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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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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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
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Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.
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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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But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.
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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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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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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
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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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All of mathematics is a tale about groups.
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It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places.
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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