Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
CLAUDE BERNARD
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Manifestation
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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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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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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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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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.
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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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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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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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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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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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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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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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