Thursday, June 30, 2011

Even science needs its beauty to attract the scientist

From Henri Poincare:

Le savant n'étudie pas la nature parce que cela est utile; il l'étudie parce qu'il y prend plaisir et il y prend plaisir parce qu'elle est BELLE.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is BEAUTIFUL.

C'est par la logique qu'on démontre, c'est par l'intuition qu'on invente.
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.
To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

--drawin,invitingandmaketheywantmore--

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