In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
CLAUDE BERNARD
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
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Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So these despisers of their fellows make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is tricked out in the embellishments with which our imagination would seek to clothe it.
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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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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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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
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