French - Mathematician | April 29, 1854 - July 17, 1912
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
Henri Poincare
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A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
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Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
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Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
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No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
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If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
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A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
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If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.
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How is an error possible in mathematics?
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A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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