Feeling alone guides the mind.
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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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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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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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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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.
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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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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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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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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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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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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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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active 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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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.
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Science rejects the 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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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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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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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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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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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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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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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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