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Us 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…
- What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
- 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…
- 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…
- Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.
- Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think
- The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives…
- The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of…
- If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong