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Those who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

Claude Bernard

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.
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Better Discover Education Information Mindset
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Ideas Simplicity
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Experiment Fundamental Observation
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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Experiment Himself Philosophy Research Understand
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Intellectual Opinion Word
The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Art Science
Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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Discover Hard Time Joy Struggle
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
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Imagination Leaving Science Yourself
Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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Admit Determination Exception Science
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Anand Thakur
Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
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Climb Horizon Necessary Proportion Science Theory

Those who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

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