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.
CLAUDE BERNARDTheories 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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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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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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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 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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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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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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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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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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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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