#met

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#geometry #true

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

#both #clearly #comprehend #details #diverse

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#like #me #photographers #pictures #sometimes

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#had #i #knew #learned #miami

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#also #contrary #essential #general #grafted

It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#confuse #even #hard #i #kind

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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