Quote by Henri Poincare
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forc

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

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Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. – Henri Poincare

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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

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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. – Henri Poincare

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If youve got a piece and you can feel the person whos going to direct it is really made for it, if its really special for them, then its going to be a better-than-usual experience. – Edward Norton

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. – Francis Bacon

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Louis Malle was the best filmmaker Ive ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience. – Brooke Shields

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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. – Shelley Winters

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Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods! – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal. – Author Unknown

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