"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to……" — Henri Poincare
"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."
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107 Quotes by Henri Poincare
Henri Poincare has 107 quotes on this site.
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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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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted…
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and…
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this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be…
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