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Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.


Henri Poincare

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HENRI POINCARE Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of ston...
HENRI POINCARE It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
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HENRI POINCARE Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to k...
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HENRI POINCARE Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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HENRI POINCARE Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
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HENRI POINCARE Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
HENRI POINCARE Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
HENRI POINCARE Mathematicians are born, not made.
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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 scie...
HENRI POINCARE Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to ...
HENRI POINCARE Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the usef...
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MAO TSE-TUNG Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
NAMIE AMURO I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
LILLIAN HELLMAN I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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DICK BENNETT I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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ANON. Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.
EMO PHILIPS Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.
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HENRI BARBUSSE Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
HENRI BERGSON In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole ...
HENRI BERGSON There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSON Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSON The motive power of democracy is love
HENRI BERGSON The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the...
HENRI BERGSON In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
HENRI NOUWEN It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
ROBERT HENRI I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
ROBERT HENRI