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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

Claude Bernard

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
CLAUDE BERNARD

Lower Ourselves Power Pride Science
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.
CLAUDE BERNARD

Break Change Enough Ideas Instrument Intellectual Purpose
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.
CLAUDE BERNARD

Beautiful Imagination Ourselves Science Truth
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
CLAUDE BERNARD

Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate
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
Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
CLAUDE BERNARD

Discover Hard Time Joy Struggle
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Experiment Fundamental Observation
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
Science rejects the indeterminate.
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Determination Rejection Science
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎
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Adapt Nature Theory
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
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
CLAUDE BERNARD

Believe Doubt Man Science True

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