Henri Poincaré Quote

Scientific laws are not artificial creations; we have no reason to regard them as accidental, though it be impossible to prove they are not.


Translated by George Bruce Halsted, The Value of Science, Introduction (p. 14), The Science Press. 1907


Scientific laws are not artificial creations; we have no reason to regard them as accidental, though it be impossible to prove they are not.

Scientific laws are not artificial creations; we have no reason to regard them as accidental, though it be impossible to prove they are not.

Scientific laws are not artificial creations; we have no reason to regard them as accidental, though it be impossible to prove they are not.

Scientific laws are not artificial creations; we have no reason to regard them as accidental, though it be impossible to prove they are not.