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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

Claude Bernard

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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Constitute End Fact Happiness Hard Time Knowledge
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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Better Discover Education Information Mindset
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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Climb Horizon Necessary Proportion Science Theory
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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Appearance Discovery Greatness Light Path Rise Shift
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
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 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.
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Beautiful Imagination Ourselves Science Truth
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
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Experiment Forever Man Reality Relation Science Teaching
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
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
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Imagination Leaving Science Yourself
Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Art Science
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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Believe Doubt Man Science True
We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Intellectual Opinion Word
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
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
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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Attachment Evidence Fact Ideas Value
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
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎
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Adapt Nature Theory
The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.
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Fragment Man Rise Science Seek Truth
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
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

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