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

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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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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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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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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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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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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
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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General
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Poison Portion
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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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 Mindset
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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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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Recognition
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

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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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Research
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Mindset
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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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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When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

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When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
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Abandonment
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Anand Thakur
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

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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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