Quotes about Henri Poincare

Mathematicians are born, not made.

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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

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It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a...

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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

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It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the...

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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations...

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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in...

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If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at...

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If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is...

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If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when...

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