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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.

Claude Bernard

First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Reason Science
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Ideas Simplicity
Science rejects the indeterminate.
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Determination Rejection Science
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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Art Character Ourselves Personality Poet Science
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎
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Adapt Nature Theory
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Establishment Fact General Science
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Anand Thakur
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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Character Clear Creation Expression Life Science
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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Climb Horizon Necessary Proportion Science Theory
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
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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Beautiful Imagination Ourselves Science Truth
Science does not permit exceptions.
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Exception One Liner Science
Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Alone Feeling Guide Mindset

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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