Science is built up of 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.
More Quotes from Henri Poincare:
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.Henri Poincare
If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
Henri Poincare
Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.
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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
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Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
Henri Poincare
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