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• It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
• Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put…
• The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
• A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it…
• Science does not permit exceptions.
• In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes,…
• In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
• Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed…
• Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
• We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
• It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never…
• Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists…

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