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The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

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.
CLAUDE BERNARD

Abandonment Acceptance Believe Conflict Fact Intuition Support Theory
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Lower Ourselves Power Pride Science
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 Fact Happiness Hard Time Knowledge
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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Acceptance Myself Practice Science Theory
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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Built Death Fact Material Observation Science
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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Achievement Explanation Team Work Understand
The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
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Illusion Influence Mental Mindset Thinking
Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
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Break Change Enough Ideas Instrument Intellectual Purpose
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Ideas Simplicity
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
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Kitchen Life Light Reach Science
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
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
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.
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Average Darkness Greatness Knowledge Man Recognition Science
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion

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