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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.

Claude Bernard

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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Active Creation Experiment Head Limitation Nature Progress Science
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Deep Knowledge Learning Ourselves Prevent
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Experiment Fundamental Observation
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Learning Man Unknown
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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Condition Force Law Manifestation State
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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Fragment Man Rise Science Seek Truth
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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Achievement Explanation Team Work Understand
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Anand Thakur
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So these despisers of their fellows make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.
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Believe Enough Firm Man Seek Theory Truth
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Active Experiment Observation Passive Science
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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Attachment Evidence Fact Ideas Value
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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Built Death Fact Material Observation Science
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
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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Climb Horizon Necessary Proportion Science Theory
Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Alone Feeling Guide Mindset

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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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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