We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
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The goal of scientific physicians in their own science … is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.
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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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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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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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Science does not permit exceptions.
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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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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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