Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a colle…

Henri Poincare
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Science is built up with 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. ✨ Science and Hypothesis. Book by Henri Poincaré, translated by George Bruce Halsted. Chapter IX: Hypotheses in Physics, 1913.
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Science is built up with 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. ✨ Science and Hypothesis. Book by Henri Poincaré, translated by George Bruce Halsted. Chapter IX: Hypotheses in Physics, 1913.

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