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Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So these despisers of their fellows make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.

Claude Bernard

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
The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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Greatness Mindset Rise Satisfaction Strive
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
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Kitchen Life Light Reach Science
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
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
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Doubt Experiment Freedom Greatness Leave Medicine Mindset Principle Virtue
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
Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
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Break Change Enough Ideas Instrument Intellectual Purpose
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
Science does not permit exceptions.
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Exception One Liner Science
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
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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Afraid Direction Fear Ground Ideas Mistake Modesty Risk
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
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
Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Art Science
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Discover Feeling Live Mindset

Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So these despisers of their fellows make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.

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Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So these despisers of their fellows make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.

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