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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.

Claude Bernard

Science does not permit exceptions.
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Exception One Liner Science
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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Excess Faith Ideas Observation Poor Theory
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
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Abandonment Acceptance Believe Conflict Fact Intuition Support Theory
First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Reason Science
Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Alone Feeling Guide Mindset
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
Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
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Break Change Enough Ideas Instrument Intellectual Purpose
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Anand Thakur
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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Achievement Explanation Team Work Understand
Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.
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Condition Force Law Manifestation State
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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Kitchen Life Light Reach Science
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown

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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