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Quotes from Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse — Tobias Dantzig

1884–1956 Latvia

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To describe means to classify, and the man Poincaré defies classification, as does indeed his philosophy.

Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse (1954)

The evolution of scientific thought is inseparable from the history of man's efforts to resolve the perplexities of his own existence.

Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse (1954)

Poincaré was an artist par excellence. Estheticism with him was not a mere creed: it was a way of life.

Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse (1954)

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