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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

Claude Bernard

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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Acceptance Myself Practice Science Theory
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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Experiment Himself Philosophy Research Understand
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
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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Believe Faith Intellectual Opinion Word
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
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
Science does not permit exceptions.
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Exception One Liner Science
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 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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Body Environment Freedom Independence Live Medium Stability
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate
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
In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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Ahead exchange Fast Ideas Move Science
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
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

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