A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-‘Art is myself; science is ourselves. ‘
CLAUDE BERNARDThose 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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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
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The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.
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The goal of scientific physicians in their own science … is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.
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