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Henri Poincaré

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

Small, Fail, See

Henri Poincaré

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.

Facts, House, Stones

Henri Poincaré

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Intuition, Prove, Through

Henri Poincaré

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.

Beautiful, Study, Useful

Henri Poincaré

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.

Work, Great, Artist

Henri Poincaré

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.

Moment, Universe, Situation

Henri Poincaré

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

Life, Beautiful, Living

Henri Poincaré

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.

Earth, Know, Existence

Henri Poincaré

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

science, technology

Henri Poincaré

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? … the skeleton of our understanding, … and actually they are the majority. … We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the attention of all who wish to devote themselves to education.

attention, education, majority, math, mathematics, problem, science, skeleton, solution, understanding

Henri Poincaré

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

abstraction, art, mathematics

Henri Poincaré

Physicists believe that the Gaussian law has been proved in mathematics while mathematicians think that it was experimentally established in physics.

mathematics, physics