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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

Claude Bernard

The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
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
In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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Ahead exchange Fast Ideas Move Science
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
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 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
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 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
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Anand Thakur
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
Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Art Science
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Lower Ourselves Power Pride Science
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 terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain

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