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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

Claude Bernard

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Confirm Control Experiment Simplicity
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
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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Abandonment Acceptance Believe Conflict Fact Intuition Support Theory
Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Amount Poison Portion
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
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Germs Insect Land Terrain
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Lower Ourselves Power Pride Science
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Discover Feeling Live Mindset
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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Determination Fact Goal Reason Reduce Science
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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Average Darkness Greatness Knowledge Man Recognition Science
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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Doubt Ignorance Science Teaching True
In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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Ahead exchange Fast Ideas Move Science
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
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Kitchen Life Light Reach Science
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
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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Imagination Leaving Science Yourself
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Experiment Observation Philosophy Teaching

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