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Henri Poincare
Profession : Mathematician
Birth : April 29, 1854
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If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
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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.
Henri Poincare
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
Henri Poincare
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
Henri Poincare
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
Henri Poincare
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Henri Poincare
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Henri Poincare
It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
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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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Mathematicians are born, not made.
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To invent is to discern, to choose.
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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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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A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
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Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
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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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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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