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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

Claude Bernard

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
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
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
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
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate
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
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
Science rejects the indeterminate.
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Determination Rejection 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
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
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
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Establishment Fact General Science
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
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

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

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