Have u heard of "Henri Poincaré"

I stumbled across some blogs and you guess what I found...


Ehmm..am thinking of the equivalent of Robert Greene.. but for science.. Geez am a geek still.


One of his many eloquent quotes, it makes me think if I do "love" science for real..


"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp."


"It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better."


"Logic teaches us that on such and such a road we are sure of not meeting an obstacle; it does not tell us which is the road that leads to the desired end. For this, it is necessary to see the end from afar, and the faculty which teaches us to see is intuition. Without it, the geometrician would be like a writer well up in grammar but destitute of ideas."


Ughhh..never would I flirt using science in this manner....it is just too much unless for Sheldon!!


References: Wikipedia, http://arunn.info/.