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... TOK Essay Science: Facts or Something More? Henri Poincaré once said, "Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks: but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house." What does Poincaré mean by his quote that formulates questions in our inquisitive minds that have never thoroughly explained before? The first part of the quote states an idea that most people have thought of before or at least know about it. Science is built of facts that are accumulated over time to provide a rational thought process about ideas, theories and the like. A house is built of bricks, which may not be your house certainly, but what Poincaré is trying to get at is to say a brick house is made of bricks or that a wood house is made of wood. The second half of Poincaré's quote is
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