Henri Poincare

Henri Poincare was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science.

He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as “The Last Universalist,” since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime.

Date of birth:
29th April, 1854
Date of death:
17th July, 1912
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
― Henri Poincare
Topic(s): Science
"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
Topic(s): Science
"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
Topic(s): Nature
"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
Topic(s): Nature
"If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment."
― Henri Poincare
Topic(s): Nature
"Science is facts."
― Henri Poincare
Topic(s): 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
Topic(s): History
"Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts."
― Henri Poincare
Topic(s): Science
"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."
― Henri Poincare
Topic(s): Experience

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