It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; … It shows us how small… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
This harmony that human intelligence believes it discovers in nature - does it exist apart from that intelligence? No, without doubt, a… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
