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It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

Henri Poincare
Order, Giving, Unity
"Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics". Book by Rahul Sarpeshkar (p. 3), 2010.

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

Henri Poincare
Idaho, Giving, Feelings
"The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind". Book by Marvin Minsky, p. 239, November 13, 2007.

When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be in possession of the whole reality, that indefinable something that constitutes the unity ... Now pure logic cannot give us this view of the whole; it is to intuition that we must look for it.

Henri Poincare
Reality, Views, Giving

If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics? But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness? Man, then, can not be happy through science but today he can much less be happy without it.

Henri Poincare
Truth, Men, Giving
1904 TheValue of Science.

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