Lucien Poincaré Quotes

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It would doubtless be exceedingly rash, and certainly very presumptuous, to seek to predict the future which may be reserved for physics. The role of prophet is not a scientific one, and the most firmly established precisions of to-day may be overthrown by the reality of to-morrow.

Lucien Poincaré
It would doubtless be exceedingly rash, and certainly very presumptuous, to seek to predict the future which may be reserved for physics. The role of prophet is not a scientific one, and the most firmly established precisions of to-day may be overthrown by the reality of tomorrow.

Lucien Poincaré
Science is in some sort a living organism, which gives birth to an indefinite series of new beings taking the places of the old, and which evolves according to the nature of its environment, adapting itself to external conditions, and healing at every step the wounds which contact with reality may have occasioned.

Lucien Poincaré
The electron has conquered Physics, and many worship the new idol rather blindly.

Lucien Poincaré
The labour of our forerunners never wholly perishes. The ideas of yesterday prepare for those of tomorrow; they contain them, so to speak, in potentia.

Lucien Poincaré
The facts which our theories enable us to discover, subsist and are linked together long after these theories have disappeared. Out of the materials of former edifices overthrown, new dwellings are constantly being reconstructed.

Lucien Poincaré