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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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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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