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Feeling alone guides the mind.

Claude Bernard

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
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.
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Delicate Live Mechanism Organism Property Wonderful
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
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
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
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
Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Alone Feeling Guide Mindset
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 discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
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Experiment Forever Man Reality Relation Science Teaching
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
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown
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
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
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Experiment Fundamental Observation

Feeling alone guides the mind.

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