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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

Claude Bernard

When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.
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Afraid Direction Fear Ground Ideas Mistake Modesty Risk
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎
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Adapt Nature Theory
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Art Science
All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
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Condition Environment Object Oneself Preserve
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 investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
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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Believe Faith Intellectual Opinion Word
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Anand Thakur
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.
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Condition Force Law Manifestation State
Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Alone Feeling Guide Mindset
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

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

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