Science is Not Built, But Evolves

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.

Notes:

It is not like a city being built through dramatic changes, but like a species that gradually changes, leaving hints of what it once was.

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 The Value of Science
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Poincaré , Henri and Halsted , George Bruce (1907), The Value of Science, Retrieved on 2012-06-21
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