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One geometry cannot be more true than another it can only be more convenient.
Henri Poincare
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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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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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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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If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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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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The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.
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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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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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Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.
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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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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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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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Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
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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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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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All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.
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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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It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.
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