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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

Claude Bernard

Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion
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 Acceptance Believe Conflict Fact Intuition Support Theory
Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Art Science
Science does not permit exceptions.
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Exception One Liner Science
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Lower Ourselves Power Pride Science
Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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Discover Hard Time Joy Struggle
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Experiment Fundamental Observation
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
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎
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Adapt Nature Theory
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
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Discover Feeling Live Mindset
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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Fragment Man Rise Science Seek Truth
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
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
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

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

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