“I’ve built my house with the stones you’ve thrown.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“Science is built up with 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.”
— Henri Poincaré, book Science and Hypothesis
Source: Science and Hypothesis (1901), Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)
Context: The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with 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.
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