First causes are outside the realm of science.
CLAUDE BERNARDNow, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-‘Art is myself; science is ourselves. ‘
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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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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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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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Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
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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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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.
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Science does not permit exceptions.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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