To invent is to discern, to choose.
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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.Henri Poincare
Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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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.
Henri Poincare
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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