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
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More quotes by Henri Poincare
- The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
- The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
- 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.
- It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
- 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.