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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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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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Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new it alone can give us certainty.
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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be in possession of the whole reality, that indefinable something that constitutes the unity ... Now pure logic cannot give us this view of the whole it is to intuition that we must look for it.
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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
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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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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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Ideas rose in clouds I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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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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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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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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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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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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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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Mathematicians are born, not made.
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Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.
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Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.
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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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