Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
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In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
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The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from winch the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
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