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In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

Claude Bernard

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
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
Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Alone Feeling Guide Mindset
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
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 terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
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Imagination Leaving Science Yourself
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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Achievement Explanation Team Work Understand
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Experiment Fundamental Observation
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎
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Adapt Nature Theory
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 first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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Compare Requirement Statistics Treat
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
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
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

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