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

Claude Bernard

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
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
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 goal of scientific physicians in their own science … is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.
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Determination Fact Goal Reason Reduce 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
Those who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.
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Excess Faith Ideas Observation Poor Theory
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
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
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 science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
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Kitchen Life Light Reach Science
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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Achievement Explanation Team Work Understand
The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Simplicity
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Discover Feeling Live Mindset
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.
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Delicate Live Mechanism Organism Property Wonderful

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