Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is… — Henri Poincare
Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything.
In the original French
la pensee n'est qu'un éclair au miliur d'une longue nuit. Mais c'est eet éclair qui est tout.
The Value of Science · 1905
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Poincare, Henri. The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare, edited by Stephen Jay Gould. Random House Publishing Group, 2001.
Original citation
Poincare, Henri. Valeur de la Science [The Value of Science]. Flammarion, 1904, ch. 11.