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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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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living
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Zero is the number of objects that satisfy a condition that is never satisfied. But as never means in no case, I do not see that any progress has been made.
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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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Mathematicians are born, not made.
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Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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