When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
CLAUDE BERNARDWe must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
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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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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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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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Science does not permit exceptions.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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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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First causes are outside the realm 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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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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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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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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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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