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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

Claude Bernard

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Establishment Fact General Science
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
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
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Kitchen Life Light Reach Science
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
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
Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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Discover Hard Time Joy Struggle
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 Ideas Simplicity
If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.
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Character Clear Creation Expression Life Science
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
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
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
We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Intellectual Opinion Word
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
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
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Simplicity

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

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