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Science Quotes by Henri Poincare
- It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
- It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is…
- Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since…
- The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
- If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics?…
- If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
- Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
- 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…
- Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.
- A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.
- A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even…
- 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…
- When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is…
- But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
- Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
- The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing…
- Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.
- Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.
- Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap…
- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it…
- Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.
- It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
- The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new,…
- Science is facts.
- Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a…
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