Henri Poincare Quotes:
Ocupation: Mathematician
Life: April 29, 1854 - July 17, 1912
Birthday: April 29
Death: July 17
So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but isn't that a mediocre service, which after all we could have done without; and, it is not even to be feared that this artificial language be a veil, interposed between reality and the physicist's eye? Far from that, without this language most of the initimate analogies of things would forever have remained unknown to us; and we would never have had knowledge of the internal harmony of the world, which is, as we shall see, the only true objective reality.
source: "Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems: A Mathematical Perspective". Book by Anton Bovier, p. 3, 2006.
topic: Eye, Reality, Games, Mathematical Analysis, Objective Reality
