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To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

- Henri Poincare
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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

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

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

Science is facts.

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.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

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To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.