Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means . . . .
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Science is facts.Henri Poincare
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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Science is facts just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts but a pile of stones is not a house And a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
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A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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