We have selected the most convenient space, but experience has guided our choice; as this choice has been unconscious, we think it has been imposed u… - Henri Poincaré

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We have selected the most convenient space, but experience has guided our choice; as this choice has been unconscious, we think it has been imposed upon us […] In this progressive education whose outcome has been the construction of space, it is very difcult to determine what is the terms of use, part of the individual, what the part of the race. How far could one of us, transported from birth to an entirely diferent world, where were dominant, for instance, bodies moving in conformity to the laws of motion of non-Euclidean solids, renounce the ancestral space to build a space completely new?

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About Henri Poincaré

Jules Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912), generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science.

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Alternative Names: Jules Henri Poincare Henri Poincare Poincare Jules Henri Poincaré Poincaré

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Мысль никогда не должна подчиняться ни догме, ни направлению, ни страсти, ни интересу, ни предвзятой идее, ни чему бы то ни было, кроме фактов, потому что для нее подчинится — значило бы перестать существовать.

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