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Mathematics Quotes by Henri Poincare
- How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they…
- So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but…
- For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses…
- Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose,…
- If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
- Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
- 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…
- 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.
- Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
- How is error possible in mathematics?
- One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the…
- One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.
- A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen there are people…
- How is an error possible in mathematics?
More Mathematics Quotes
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
- I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. — John Adams
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce
- When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole