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Small Quotes by Henri Poincare
- 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 small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
- 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.
- 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 very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect…
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- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
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- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
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