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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

Claude Bernard

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Simplicity
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Discover Feeling Live Mindset
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
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
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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Condition Force Law Manifestation State
With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.
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Active Creation Experiment Head Limitation Nature Progress Science
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Establishment Fact General Science
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Experiment Fundamental Observation
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
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
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
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.
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Average Darkness Greatness Knowledge Man Recognition Science
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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