"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
― Henri Poincare
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― 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."
- "It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
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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
- "I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself."― Edward Steichen
- "Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic."― David Rockefeller