A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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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In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
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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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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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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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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of 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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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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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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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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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 investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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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 first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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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 terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.
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A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.
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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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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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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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We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
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