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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Claude Bernard

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
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown
Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Art Science
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive 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
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
The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is tricked out in the embellishments with which our imagination would seek to clothe it.
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Beautiful Imagination Ourselves Science Truth
A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.
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Appearance Discovery Greatness Light Path Rise Shift
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
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
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
First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Reason Science
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Ideas Simplicity
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
Science does not permit exceptions.
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Exception One Liner Science

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

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