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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

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
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate
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
The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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Greatness Mindset Rise Satisfaction Strive
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
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
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
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
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
The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
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Illusion Influence Mental Mindset Thinking
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion
Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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Admit Determination Exception Science
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
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
Science rejects the indeterminate.
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Determination Rejection Science

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