In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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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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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active 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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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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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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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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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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Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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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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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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In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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