It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we dis… — Quoted

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

Henri Poincare · Science

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Henri Poincare

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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