"Thought is only a flash between two long……" — Henri Poincare
"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
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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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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and…
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Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus…
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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating,…
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
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When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do…
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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is…
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I…
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