A well-chosen word usually suffices to do away with the exceptions from which the rules stated in the old way suffer; this is why we have created negative quantities, imaginaries, points at infinity, and what not. And exceptions, we must not forget, are pernicious because they hide the laws.


The Future of Mathematics, Monist, Volume 20, Number 1, January, 1910 (p. 83)

Henri Poincaré Quotes

A well-chosen word usually suffices to do away with the exceptions from which the rules stated in the old way suffer; this is why we have created...

A well-chosen word usually suffices to do away with the exceptions from which the rules stated in the old way suffer; this is why we have created...

A well-chosen word usually suffices to do away with the exceptions from which the rules stated in the old way suffer; this is why we have created...

A well-chosen word usually suffices to do away with the exceptions from which the rules stated in the old way suffer; this is why we have created...