"Science is facts."
-Henri Poincare
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"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.“
-Henri Poincare
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"Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts."
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"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
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