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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

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Ideas Simplicity
The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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Greatness Mindset Rise Satisfaction Strive
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Art Science
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
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
The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎
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Adapt Nature Theory
But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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Acceptance Myself Practice Science Theory
If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.
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Character Clear Creation Expression Life Science
Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Alone Feeling Guide Mindset
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
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 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
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

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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