Facts are sterile until there are minds capable of choosing between them and discerning those which conceal something and recognizing that which is concealed; minds which under the bare fact see the soul of the fact.


Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1909, The Future of Mathematics (pp. 124—125, Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C. 1910

Henri Poincaré Quotes

Facts are sterile until there are minds capable of choosing between them and discerning those which conceal something and recognizing that which is...

Facts are sterile until there are minds capable of choosing between them and discerning those which conceal something and recognizing that which is...

Facts are sterile until there are minds capable of choosing between them and discerning those which conceal something and recognizing that which is...

Facts are sterile until there are minds capable of choosing between them and discerning those which conceal something and recognizing that which is...