Best Henri Poincare Quotes
- Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think Believe
- Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance. Chance
- Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. Flash
- 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… Analogies
- Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits… Accomplished
- Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This… All
- Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further. Analyse
- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes… Appearance
- Mathematicians are born, not made. Born
- Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the… Content
- Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour,… Always Presuppose
- 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… All
- The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. Creativity
- Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means ... Advantageous
- A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter. Enormous
- It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value. Inspirational
- Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; .... It shows us how small is man's body,… Astronomy
- If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living Beautiful
- There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved. Knowledge
- 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… Better
- It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed. Chance
- Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered. Disease
- Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures. Abstract
- How is error possible in mathematics? Error
- Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. Born
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