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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.

Claude Bernard

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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Excess Faith Ideas Observation Poor Theory
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion
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 true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
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Experiment Himself Seek True Worth
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive 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
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Simplicity
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
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎
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Adapt Nature Theory
Science rejects the indeterminate.
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Determination Rejection Science
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
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate
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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Afraid Direction Fear Ground Ideas Mistake Modesty Risk
Science does not permit exceptions.
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Exception One Liner Science

Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.

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