French - Mathematician | April 29, 1854 - July 17, 1912
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
Henri Poincare
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It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
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To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
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If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
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Mathematicians are born, not made.
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
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To invent is to discern, to choose.
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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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