Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
CLAUDE BERNARDParticular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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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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We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
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A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.
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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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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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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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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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Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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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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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
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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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