Does the Scientist create Science?—Professor Kados of Budapest in his report to the Hungarian Academy of Science on the award to Poincare of the Bolyai prize of ten thousand crowns, speaking of him as at the present moment unquestionably the most powerful investigator in the domain of mathematics and mathematical physics, recognizes in him the intuitive genius drawing the inspiration for his wide-reaching researches from the exhaustless fountain of geometric and physical intuition, yet working this inspiration out in detail with marvelous logical keenness. With his brilliant creative genius is combined the capacity for sharp and successful generalization, pushing far out the boundaries of thought in the most widely different domains, so that his works must be ranked with the greatest mathematical achievements of all time.