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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

Claude Bernard

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
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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Condition Force Law Manifestation State
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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Acceptance Myself Practice Science Theory
Science rejects the indeterminate.
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Determination Rejection Science
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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Believe Faith Intellectual Opinion Word
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Anand Thakur
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
Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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Admit Determination Exception Science
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
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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Imagination Leaving Science Yourself
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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Climb Horizon Necessary Proportion Science Theory
In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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Ahead exchange Fast Ideas Move Science
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion

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