A Quote by Henri Poincare

It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

Henri Poincare

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Henri Poincare
French - Mathematician
April 29, 1854 - July 17, 1912

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

Morris Kline

A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what the solution 'should look like.' ... Science is ultimately based on insight, not logic.

Guy Consolmagno

Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within. That is the very meaning of the word "intuition": to know, or understand from within - from one's own self, and from the heart of whatever one is trying to understand. Intuition is the inner ability to see behind the outer forms of things to their inner essence.

Goswami Kriyananda

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Daniel Tammet

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

Jean Giraudoux

Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

Henri Poincare

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Rita Mae Brown

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Blaise Pascal

Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.

Jacques Hadamard

Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.

Henri Poincare

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Andre Gide

I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.

Charles Hard Townes

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

Seymour Cray

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

Sam Harris

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