Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
More Quotes from Henri Poincare:
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.Henri Poincare
Science is facts.
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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.
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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
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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