Henri Poincare Quotes

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.
Henri Poincare

Happy, Once, Word

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
Henri Poincare

Science, Made, Facts

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
Henri Poincare

Great, Small, Born

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
Henri Poincare

Study, Between, Relations

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
Henri Poincare

Art, Giving, Different

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
Henri Poincare

Themselves, Add, Infallible

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
Henri Poincare

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
Henri Poincare

Nature, History, Science

Science is facts.
Henri Poincare

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
Henri Poincare

Knowledge, Law, Facts

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
Henri Poincare

Experience, Mind, Creativity

Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.
Henri Poincare

Long, Free, Others

To invent is to discern, to choose.
Henri Poincare

Choose, Invent, Discern

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
Henri Poincare

Feeling, Indeed, Solution

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Mathematician

Born: April 29, 1854

Died: July 17, 1912

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