In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
CLAUDE BERNARDPut 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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The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
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We must keep our freedom of mind, and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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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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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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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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We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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