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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
— Henri Poincare
Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
— Henri Poincare
To invent is to discern, to choose.
— Henri Poincare
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.
— Henri Poincare
All of mathematics is a tale about groups.
— Henri Poincare
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.
— Henri Poincare
Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think
— Henri Poincare
It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
— Henri Poincare
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.
— Henri Poincare
Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
— Henri Poincare
How is error possible in mathematics?
— Henri Poincare
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
— Henri Poincare
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
— Henri Poincare
Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.
— Henri Poincare
Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
— Henri Poincare
Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.
— Henri Poincare
What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
— Henri Poincare
There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.
— Henri Poincare
It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.
— Henri Poincare
Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
— Henri Poincare
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.
— Henri Poincare
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
— Henri Poincare
To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking.
— Henri Poincare
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.
— Henri Poincare
How is an error possible in mathematics?
— Henri Poincare
Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.
— Henri Poincare
But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.
— Henri Poincare
Science is facts.
— Henri Poincare
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
— Henri Poincare
Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.
— Henri Poincare
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
— Henri Poincare
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
— Henri Poincare
Is is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.
— Henri Poincare
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.
— Henri Poincare
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means ...
— Henri Poincare
You hold in your hands the future of the world.
— Raymond Poincare
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
— Henri Poincare
Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.
— Henri Poincare
A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.
— Henri Poincare
Facts do not speak.
— Henri Poincare
Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
— Henri Poincare
It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value.
— Henri Poincare
Mathematicians are born, not made.
— Henri Poincare
Physicists believe that the Gaussian law has been proved in mathematics while mathematicians think that it was experimentally established in physics.
— Henri Poincare
One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient.
— Henri Poincare
If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
— Henri Poincare