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Them 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…
- When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be in possession of…
- 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…
- Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the…
- What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and…
- 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…
- Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change.…
- 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…
- Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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