Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

Henri Poincare
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  1. Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

  2. 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.

  3. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

  4. 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.

  5. A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

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