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Great Quotes by Henri Poincare
- Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these…
- I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
- It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.
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