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But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
Henri Poincare
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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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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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Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.
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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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Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.
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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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How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the attention of all who wish to devote themselves to education.
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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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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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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think
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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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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
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How is error possible in mathematics?
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Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer.
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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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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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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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Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.
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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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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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