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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Claude Bernard

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.
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Better Discover Education Information Mindset
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
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown
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
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
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Establishment Fact General Science
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Lower Ourselves Power Pride 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
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
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
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
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
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate

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