Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe 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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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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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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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 the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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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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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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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active 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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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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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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We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
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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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