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All of mathematics is a tale about groups.

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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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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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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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Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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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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One geometry cannot be more true than another it can only be more convenient.
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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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Ideas rose in clouds I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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How is error possible in mathematics?
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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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The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
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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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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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But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.
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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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Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.
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