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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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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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Ideas rose in clouds I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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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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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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Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.
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Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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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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Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
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What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that it is one that can be understood by the pupils.
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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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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. Now, they invent them deliberately just to invalidate our ancestors' reasoning, and that is all they are ever going to get out of them.
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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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Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
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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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We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
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