Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
CLAUDE BERNARDAll the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
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All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
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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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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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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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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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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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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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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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Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.
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