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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Claude Bernard

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
CLAUDE BERNARD

Confirm Control Experiment Simplicity
First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Reason Science
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 does not permit exceptions.
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Exception One Liner Science
The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
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
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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Experiment Himself Philosophy Research Understand
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.
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Fragment Man Rise Science Seek Truth
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-‘Art is myself; science is ourselves. ‘
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Art Character Ourselves Personality Poet Science
In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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Ahead exchange Fast Ideas Move Science
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Establishment Fact General Science
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
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
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

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

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