Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
CLAUDE BERNARDIn 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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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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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Science does not permit exceptions.
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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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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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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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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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 experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
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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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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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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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If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.
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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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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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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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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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