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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

Claude Bernard

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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Compare Requirement Statistics Treat
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
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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Body Environment Freedom Independence Live Medium Stability
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Establishment Fact General Science
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Anand Thakur
The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
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. 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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Average Darkness Greatness Knowledge Man Recognition Science
A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.
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Appearance Discovery Greatness Light Path Rise Shift
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
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Illusion Influence Mental Mindset Thinking
Science does not permit exceptions.
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Exception One Liner Science
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.
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Delicate Live Mechanism Organism Property Wonderful
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
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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Attachment Evidence Fact Ideas Value

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