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The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Claude Bernard

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
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Lower Ourselves Power Pride Science
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
First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Reason Science
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Art Science
The goal of scientific physicians in their own science … is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.
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Determination Fact Goal Reason Reduce Science
Science does not permit exceptions.
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Exception One Liner Science
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Ideas Simplicity
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.
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Beautiful Imagination Ourselves Science Truth
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
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
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
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Experiment Himself Seek True Worth
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate

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