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Quote by Henri Poincare
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studie

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

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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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Knowledge
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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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Science
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