"No more than these machines need the mathematician……" — Henri Poincare
"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."
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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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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in…
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A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is…
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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from…
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Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine…
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
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I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.
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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But…
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I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
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