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Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

Claude Bernard

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
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 admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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Admit Determination Exception Science
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Lower Ourselves Power Pride 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
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Simplicity
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
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
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
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate
Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
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Climb Horizon Necessary Proportion Science Theory
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Experiment Fundamental Observation
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
But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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Acceptance Myself Practice Science 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

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

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Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

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