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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.

Claude Bernard

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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Compare Requirement Statistics Treat
The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
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
If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.
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Character Clear Creation Expression Life Science
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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Achievement Explanation Team Work Understand
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
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
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Lower Ourselves Power Pride Science
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
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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Excess Faith Ideas Observation Poor Theory
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.
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Delicate Live Mechanism Organism Property Wonderful
Science rejects the indeterminate.
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Determination Rejection Science
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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Determination Fact Goal Reason Reduce Science
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
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 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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