Weird Science

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Just the Facts

“Science is built 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.” 

—Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), mathematician, physicist and philosopher

• Editorial Comment: Sometimes a sand castle, sometimes a Pulitzer.


PeezPix by Ted Pease

The Old Pier






 



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