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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
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.
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.
The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality
This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.
If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.
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.
It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.
As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.
School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.
My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.
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 key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.
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.
Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.
Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.
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.
Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.
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.
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
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 Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world?
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.
Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.
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.
From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.
Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.
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.