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• Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I…
• All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot…
• Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
• "Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is…
• If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more…
• When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined,…
• The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming…
• The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the…
• The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.
• The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is…
• I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat…
• That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.

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