Tag: Henri Poincare

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Science is facts.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

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.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.