True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
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A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.
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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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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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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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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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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.
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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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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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The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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The goal of scientific physicians in their own science … is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.
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Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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