Avoiding Quote by Henri Poincare

“Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.”

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Science is facts.

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All of mathematics is a tale about groups.

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A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.

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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

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Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.

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Experiment is the sole source of truth.

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