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Discovery is discernment, selection. — Henri Poincare

Scientific literature

Discovery is discernment, selection.

In the original French

Inventer, c'est discerner, c'est choisir.

Henri Poincare
Science and Method · 1908
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Discovery
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1908
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Henri Poincare
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Poincare, Henri. Science et methode [Science and Method]. Flammarion, 1914, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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