"In one word, to draw the rule from……" — Henri Poincare
"In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer."
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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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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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When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not…
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My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any…
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I thought Obama was brilliant. He's so informed. He's circumspect. He's articulate. He's thoughtful. Well, I think in my lifetime,…
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Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had…
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When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees,…
— Garrison Keillor
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It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
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Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie…
— John Florio
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...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn…
— Angela Carter
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They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode…
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