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.
CLAUDE BERNARDIn science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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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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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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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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If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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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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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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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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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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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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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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