The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
More Quotes from Henri Poincare:
Mathematicians are born, not made.Henri Poincare
Facts do not speak.
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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
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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.
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
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