Experiment Is The Sole Source

It May Be Appropriate To Quote A Statement Of Poincare, Who Said (partly In Jest No Doubt) That There Must Be Something Mysterious About The Normal Law Since Mathematicians Think It Is A Law Of Nature Whereas Physicists Are Convinced That It Is A Mathematical Theorem.

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.

Every Phenomenon, However Trifling It Be, Has A Cause, And A Mind Infinitely Powerful, And Infinitely Well-informed Concerning The Laws Of Nature Could Have Foreseen It From The Beginning Of The Ages. If A Being With Such A Mind Existed, We Could Play No Game Of Chance With Him; We Should Always Lose.

When The Logician Has Resolved Each Demonstration Into A Host Of Elementary Operations, All Of Them Correct, He Will Not Yet Be In Possession Of The Whole Reality, That Indefinable Something That Constitutes The Unity ... Now Pure Logic Cannot Give Us This View Of The Whole; It Is To Intuition That We Must Look For It.

What Is It Indeed That Gives Us The Feeling Of Elegance In A Solution, In A Demonstration?