The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
CLAUDE BERNARD
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Modesty
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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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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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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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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When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
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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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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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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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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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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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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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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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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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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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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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