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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- Science and Hypothesis, chapter IX; translated by George Bruce Halsted, The Foundations of Science (1913), p. 127; Two complete sentences in the public-domain Halsted translation. Read chapter IX opening and following discussion of generalization and good experiments, and checked title page translat
- Science and Hypothesis, chapter IX; translated by George Bruce Halsted, The Foundations of Science (1913), p. 127
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