We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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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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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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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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A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.
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With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.
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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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Now, 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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We must keep our freedom of mind, and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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