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Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.

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
Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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Admit Determination Exception Science
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Establishment Fact General Science
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
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown
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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Believe Enough Firm Man Seek Theory Truth
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
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
Those who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.
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Excess Faith Ideas Observation Poor Theory
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
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Attachment Evidence Fact Ideas Value
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
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Experiment Himself Seek True Worth
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
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
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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Greatness Mindset Rise Satisfaction Strive

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