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Giving Quotes by Henri Poincare

8 Giving quotes by Henri Poincare

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When generosity feels like a quiet, steady pulse, Henri Poincare’s eight lines capture that subtle power. Though the collection is brief, each thought shines a light on why sharing matters, making it a useful starter for anyone curious about the philosophy of giving.

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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…

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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…

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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of…

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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

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The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give…

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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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So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a…

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Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

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. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most…

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Science is facts.

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All of mathematics is a tale about groups.

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

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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.

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If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the…

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