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Quote by Henri Poincare
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. – Henri Poincare

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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

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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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Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einsteins general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. – Stephen Hawking

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My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron. – Eliza Dushku

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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. – William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, 1910

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