The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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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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Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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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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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in 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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The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
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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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