"A very small cause which escapes our notice……" — Henri Poincare
"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 is due to chance."
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107 Quotes by Henri Poincare
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no…
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Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite…
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It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
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In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on…
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It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too…
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Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws…
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot…
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the…
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It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make…
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
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Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I…
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind:…
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You are not being tested! You are being fortified! Remember, you cannot fail!
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which…
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Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too…
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The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure of force; it…
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We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.
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The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail…
— H. Bentley Glass
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If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens -…
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