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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.

Claude Bernard

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
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
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
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
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
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Experiment Forever Man Reality Relation Science Teaching
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion
The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.
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Better Discover Education Information Mindset
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
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive 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 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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Constitute End Fact Happiness Hard Time Knowledge
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
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Kitchen Life Light Reach Science
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
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
All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
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Condition Environment Object Oneself Preserve

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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