Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
CLAUDE BERNARD
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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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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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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We must keep our freedom of mind, and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
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In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
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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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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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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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In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
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