Henri Poincare Quotes
Les faits ne parlent pas.
Facts do not speak.
Poincaré, Henri. La Valeur de la Science. Ernest Flammarion, 1905, p. 257.
The Egyptian pilot was an extreme Muslim fundamentalist who committed suicide while killing all the passengers. From the point of view of Osama bin Laden this was a test that a fanatic would kill “heathens” by flying an Airplane and killing himself also in the process. This was then used in designing the plan for 9-11. However, at the time of the investigation, our intelligence agencies never “connected the dots” while it was clear in retrospect. The cockpit voice recorder showed that the pilot kept repeating the traditional Islamic battle cry, “God is Great” over and over as he dove the plane into the sea.
Many politicians have used this quote in recent years, but Moynahan seems to be the first.
Jules Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist", since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime.
