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QUOTATION: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.
ATTRIBUTION:Jules Henri Poincare (1854–1912), French mathematician, physicist, philosopher of science. La Science et l’Hypothese (1908).

On the need for theory.
 
 
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