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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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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them.
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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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Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.
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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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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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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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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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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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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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Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.
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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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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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Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
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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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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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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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Ideas rose in clouds I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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