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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Claude Bernard

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
CLAUDE BERNARD

Attachment Evidence Fact Ideas Value
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
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
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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Afraid Direction Fear Ground Ideas Mistake Modesty Risk
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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Absurd Believe Freedom Impossible Mindset Nature
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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Body Environment Freedom Independence Live Medium Stability
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
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
First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Reason Science
In 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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Experiment Forever Man Reality Relation Science Teaching
Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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Discover Hard Time Joy Struggle
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.
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Fragment Man Rise Science Seek Truth
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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Active Creation Experiment Head Limitation Nature Progress Science
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎
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Adapt Nature Theory

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