“ It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ En un mot, pour tirer la loi de l'expérience, if faut généraliser; c'est une nécessité qui s'impose à l'observateur le plus circonspect. In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Deviner avant de démontrer! Aije besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes. Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made? ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison. The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. To invent is to discern, to choose. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. To invent is to discern, to choose. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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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. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means… machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages… ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. To invent is to discern, to choose. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means… machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages… ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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