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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

Claude Bernard

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
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Experiment Fundamental Observation
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
The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
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Constitute End Fact Happiness Hard Time Knowledge
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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Built Death Fact Material Observation Science
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Establishment Fact General Science
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
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Doubt Experiment Freedom Greatness Leave Medicine Mindset Principle Virtue
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
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Experiment Forever Man Reality Relation Science Teaching
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Anand Thakur
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
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

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

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