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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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Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.
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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 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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Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
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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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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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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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The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
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The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.
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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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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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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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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
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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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We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
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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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All of mathematics is a tale about groups.
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