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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

Claude Bernard

The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is tricked out in the embellishments with which our imagination would seek to clothe it.
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Beautiful Imagination Ourselves Science Truth
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
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown
Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Alone Feeling Guide Mindset
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
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion
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
First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Reason Science
Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So these despisers of their fellows make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.
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Believe Enough Firm Man Seek Theory Truth
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
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Simplicity
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
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent

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