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The Advance Of Science Is Not Comparable To The Changes Of A City, Where Old Edifices Are Pitilessly Torn Down To Give Place To New, But To The Continuous Evolution Of Zoologic Types Which Develop Ceaselessly And End By Becoming Unrecognisable To The Common Sight, But Where An Expert Eye Finds Always Traces Of The Prior Work Of The Centuries Past. One Must Not Think Then That The Old-fashioned Theories Have Been Sterile And Vain.

To Invent Is To Discern, To Choose.

All The Scientist Creates In A Fact Is The Language In Which He Enunciates It. If He Predicts A Fact, He Will Employ This Language, And For All Those Who Can Speak And Understand It, His Prediction Is Free From Ambiguity. Moreover, This Prediction Once Made, It Evidently Does Not Depend Upon Him Whether It Is Fulfilled Or Not.

It Is The Harmony Of The Diverse Parts, Their Symmetry, Their Happy Balance; In A Word It Is All That Introduces Order, All That Gives Unity, That Permits Us To See Clearly And To Comprehend At Once Both The Ensemble And The Details.

A Small Error In The Former Will Produce An Enormous Error In The Latter.