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Most Quotes by Henri Poincare
- In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.
- It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even…
- 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…
- 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.
- Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
- . . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous…
- 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…
- It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.
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