Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Source: Moralitps, 1932; repr. in Collected Works, vol. 14, Analects, ed. by J. Matthews, 1970.
-- Paul Valery, (Oct 30 1871-1945), French poet, critic; He is best known for his association with the symbolists and his greatest poem The Young Fate, 1917.