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

Claude Bernard

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
Science rejects the indeterminate.
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Determination Rejection Science
Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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Discover Hard Time Joy Struggle
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Lower Ourselves Power Pride Science
The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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Believe Doubt Man Science True
We must keep our freedom of mind, and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
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Absurd Believe Freedom Impossible Mindset Nature
All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
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Condition Environment Object Oneself Preserve
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
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion
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
With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.
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Active Creation Experiment Head Limitation Nature Progress Science
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
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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