Henri Poincare Quotes

I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step the idea came to me, without anything in my former thoughts seeming to have paved the way for it, that the transformations I had used to define the Fuchsian functions were identical with non-Euclidean geometry.

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

It sounds cheesy, but if you are having fun, people will love your company, you will be more successful, and more ideas will come your way.

Mathematicians aren't motivated by money and material gain, or even by practical applications of their work. For us it's the glory of solving one of the great unsolved problems that have outwitted previous generations of mathematicians. …. Despite all the things we've discovered over the last 7 millennia, there are still many things we don't understand.

As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.

Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.

If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.

Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.