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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Claude Bernard

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
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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Condition Force Law Manifestation State
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
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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Built Death Fact Material Observation Science
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎
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Adapt Nature Theory
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
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
Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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Discover Hard Time Joy Struggle
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
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
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 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
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
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Discover Feeling Live Mindset
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate
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

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