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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

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
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Experiment Fundamental Observation
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Discover General Theory
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Clear Genius Hate
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
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
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
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
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Believe Faith Investigate
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
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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Illusion Influence Mental Mindset Thinking
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
With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.
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Active Creation Experiment Head Limitation Nature Progress Science
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
First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Reason Science

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