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Quote by Henri Poincare
One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science

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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