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

Claude Bernard

Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Alone Feeling Guide Mindset
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown
Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
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Break Change Enough Ideas Instrument Intellectual Purpose
Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Art Science
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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Experiment Himself Philosophy Research Understand
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Experiment Fundamental Observation
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
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Lower Ourselves Power Pride Science
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
The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
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Experiment Himself Seek True Worth
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
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
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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Condition Environment Object Oneself Preserve

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