Henri Poincare

Henri Poincare
Jules Henri Poincaréwas a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist by Eric Temple Bell, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth29 April 1854
CountryFrance
science night thinking
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
science causes chance
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.
science
Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.
science technology numbers
Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.
science thanks problem
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.
independent science reality
A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.
science player chess
Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.
science simplicity imagine
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
science issues logic
Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.
truth knowledge science
It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
science intuition hunches
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
believe science reflection
Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.
beautiful math science
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.
science house stones
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.