...just been speaking constitute the raw material of physics. But, as Poincare remarked, an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. When we set to work to build our house — ie to create a science — we must first coordinate and...

...work with method. Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones ; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. Most important of all, the man of science must exhibit foresight. Carlyle has written somewhere something...

...no other word would serve quite as well to describe it. Years ago, the mathematician Poincare wrote, "Science is built up with facts as a house is with...more a science than a heap of stones is a house." The word is becoming trendy, a buzzword now, almost lost to science. What is called holistic thought...

...work with method. Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is house. Most important of all, the man of science must exhibit foresight. " ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors...

How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom ...

...consumer; that is, what would you want to know before you put your scarce resources into a program. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with...no more a science than a heap of stones is a house, (p. 80) In our approach, the setup is the blueprint for determining the types of stones that will be...

...infra-red observations to advance these subjects. Science is built up with facts, as a house is built up with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house. (Poincare) In that spirit these lectures have emphasised the models and...

...CHAPTER SIX Class I Solutions Applied to Heat Flow Through Fins Science is built up with facts, us a house is with stones. But a collection of facts...no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. Jules Menn Poincare 1854-1912 In Chapter 4, we developed a number of solutions to the Class 1 problem....

...the form of the test, we had lost sight of its content. Science is built up with facts, as is a house with stones. But, a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. 5 There are usually two critical issues in alternative forms of assessment The first has to do with...

...prior theory. But as Poincare has pointed out: 'Les faits ne parlent pas'. Science, he goes on to say, 'is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more science than a heap of stones is a house.' I have tried to escape the obvious dangers of the experimental...