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.

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Henri Poincare was a 19th-century French mathematician, physicist and engineer. Jules Henri PoincarĂ© 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. Read more on Wikipedia →

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