Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Jules Henri Poincare
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) French physicist, mathematician, philosopher
Science and Hypothesis, ch. 9 (1905)

 
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