Famous Quotes

"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."

Henri Poincare on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Henri Poincare

• "The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."

• "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."

• "It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."

• "Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."

• "Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts."