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Quotation from Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincare
“the aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relations between things; outside those relations there is no reality knowable.”
Science and Hypothesis, Author's Preface, trans. W. J. Greenstreet
Poincaré's summary of what science can know.
Citation: "the aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relations between things; outside those relations there is no reality knowable." — Henri Poincare, Science and Hypothesis, Author's Preface, trans. W. J. Greenstreet. (id poincare-science-and-hypothesis-q2)
Portrait: Henri Poincaré, PA03199, Henri Manuel, Public domain.
