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Art is I; science is we.
Art is 'I'; science is 'we'.
Feeling alone guides the mind.
Science rejects the indeterminate.
Science does not permit exceptions.
Experimentation is an active science.
First causes are outside the realm of science.
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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.
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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.
The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
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.