First causes are outside the realm of science.
CLAUDE BERNARD
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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.
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A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-‘Art is myself; science is ourselves. ‘
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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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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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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.
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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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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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A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.
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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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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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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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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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