A few thoughts about science popped in my brain today, so I let that steer this post. While I wanted to find one about the periodic table, I found this to be quite poignant.
"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." ~Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis,1905
"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." ~Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis,1905
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