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Science is facts;

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

Thus, be it

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means….[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go

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