Henri Poincare Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?”

“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.”

“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.”

“Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.”

“Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.”

“Science is facts.”