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Old July 18th, 2018, 10:24 PM   #4737
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Default Henri Poincaré (1854-1902)
Henri Poincaré (1854-1902)
Mathematician and physicist precursor of chaos theory.

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On fait la science avec des faits, comme on fait une maison avec des pierres; mais une accumulation de faits n'est pas plus une science qu'un tas de pierres n'est une maison.
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Science is made with facts, as we make a house with stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
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