The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is tricked out in the embellishments with which our imagination would seek to clothe it.
CLAUDE BERNARDPriestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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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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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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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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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Science does not permit exceptions.
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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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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
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The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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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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