A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
CLAUDE BERNARDPriestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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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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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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Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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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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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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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So these despisers of their fellows make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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