Henri Poincaré Quote

In repeating an argument that I have learned, I could readily have discovered it myself: or rather, even if this is an illusion, if I were not clever enough to have created it myself, I rediscover it myself, to the extent that I repeat it.


In: Raymond George Ayoub, Musings of the Masters: An Anthology of Mathematical Reflections, Mathematical Invention (p. 22)


In repeating an argument that I have learned, I could readily have discovered it myself: or rather, even if this is an illusion, if I were not clever ...

In repeating an argument that I have learned, I could readily have discovered it myself: or rather, even if this is an illusion, if I were not clever ...

In repeating an argument that I have learned, I could readily have discovered it myself: or rather, even if this is an illusion, if I were not clever ...

In repeating an argument that I have learned, I could readily have discovered it myself: or rather, even if this is an illusion, if I were not clever ...