A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
CLAUDE BERNARDScience admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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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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When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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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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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Science does not permit exceptions.
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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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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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Those who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.
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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
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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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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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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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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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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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Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.
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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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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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