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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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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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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
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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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Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new it alone can give us certainty.
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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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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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Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.
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A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.
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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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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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Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
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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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...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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Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
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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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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses and imagination but one had but a rough picture and not a precise idea on which reasoning could take hold.
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