Henri Poincare Quotes
Top 60 wise famous quotes and sayings by Henri Poincare
Henri Poincare Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think
A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.
Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.
To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking.
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.
But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means ...
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
Physicists believe that the Gaussian law has been proved in mathematics while mathematicians think that it was experimentally established in physics.
If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.