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Henri Poincare has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms…
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Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to…
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It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
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In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most…
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It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That…
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Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature…
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all…
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion…
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It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment…
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
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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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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
— John Bunyan
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
— Lord Byron
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Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.
— Deepak Chopra
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The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning…
— Peter Abelard
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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
— Peter Abelard
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According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God.…
— John Baillie
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There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness…
— Charles Edward Jefferson
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If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only…
— Dwight L. Moody
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I am doubting what to do.
— Horace
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What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!…
— John Bunyan
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Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful…
— Abraham Lincoln
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By doubting we come at truth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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