The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
CLAUDE BERNARDIn teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
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Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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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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In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
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With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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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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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
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