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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
Henri Poincare
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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.
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Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.
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A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.
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The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.
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One geometry cannot be more true than another it can only be more convenient.
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