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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

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Experiment Fundamental Observation
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
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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Delicate Live Mechanism Organism Property Wonderful
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Establishment Fact General Science
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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Believe Doubt Man Science True
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 investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Discover Science Show
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
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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Compare Requirement Statistics Treat
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
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
First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Reason Science
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
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Doubt Experiment Freedom Greatness Leave Medicine Mindset Principle Virtue
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Discover Feeling Live Mindset

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

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