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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

Claude Bernard

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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Determination Fact Goal Reason Reduce Science
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
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching
Science rejects the indeterminate.
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Determination Rejection Science
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
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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Character Clear Creation Expression Life Science
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Lower Ourselves Power Pride Science
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
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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Appearance Discovery Greatness Light Path Rise Shift
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
When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.
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Afraid Direction Fear Ground Ideas Mistake Modesty Risk
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
Science does not permit exceptions.
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Exception One Liner Science
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 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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Better Discover Education Information Mindset
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

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