The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is tricked out in the embellishments with which our imagination would seek to clothe it.

CLAUDE BERNARD

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The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is tricked out in the embellishments with which our imagination would seek to clothe it.

Claude Bernard

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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 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
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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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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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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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.

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
But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

CLAUDE BERNARD

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.

CLAUDE BERNARD

When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.
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Modesty
A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.

CLAUDE BERNARD

A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.
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Rise
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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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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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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General
The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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Mindset Rise Strive
In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

CLAUDE BERNARD

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 Move
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt
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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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
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Unknown
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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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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Object Oneself Preserve
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

CLAUDE BERNARD

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Mindset

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