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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.

Claude Bernard

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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Illusion Influence Mental Mindset Thinking
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Simplicity
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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Fragment Man Rise Science Seek Truth
Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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Admit Determination Exception Science
Science does not permit exceptions.
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Exception One Liner Science
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
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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Active Creation Experiment Head Limitation Nature Progress Science
First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Reason Science
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
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Lower Ourselves Power Pride Science
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
The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Discover Feeling Live Mindset
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

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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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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