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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

Claude Bernard

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
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Experiment Fundamental Observation
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
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Anand Thakur
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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Imagination Leaving Science Yourself
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
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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Believe Enough Firm Man Seek Theory Truth
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown
Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Art Science
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
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
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
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is tricked out in the embellishments with which our imagination would seek to clothe it.
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Beautiful Imagination Ourselves Science Truth
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
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

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