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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

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No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

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A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

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It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

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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.

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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

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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.

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Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

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Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Mathematician

Born: April 29th, 1854

Died: July 17th, 1912

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