In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
CLAUDE BERNARDWell-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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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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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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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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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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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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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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Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
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The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
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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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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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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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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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