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"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."
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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."
"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."
Explore more quotes by Henri Poincare
"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics."
"A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature."
"If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment."
"Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence."
"If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws."
"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."
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