A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
More Quotes from Henri Poincare:
If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.Henri Poincare
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
Henri Poincare
How is an error possible in mathematics?
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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.
Henri Poincare
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.
Henri Poincare
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
Henri Poincare
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