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A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Claude Bernard

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
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Abandonment Acceptance Believe Conflict Fact Intuition Support Theory
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎
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Adapt Nature Theory
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Anand Thakur
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
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
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
But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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Acceptance Myself Practice Science Theory
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
Science rejects the indeterminate.
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Determination Rejection Science
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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Experiment Himself Philosophy Research Understand
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
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown
Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.
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Condition Force Law Manifestation State
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Discover Feeling Live Mindset
Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Art Science

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