A Great Discovery Is A

In The Philosophic Sense, Observation Shows And Experiment Teaches.

The Constancy Of The Internal Environment Is The Condition For Free And Independent Life: The Mechanism That Makes It Possible Is That Which Assured The Maintenance, With The Internal Environment, Of All The Conditions Necessary For The Life Of The Elements.

Our Ideas Are Only Intellectual Instruments Which We Use To Break Into Phenomena; We Must Change Them When They Have Served Their Purpose, As We Change A Blunt Lancet That We Have Used Long Enough.

Proof That A Given Condition Always Precedes Or Accompanies A Phenomenon Does Not Warrant Concluding With Certainty That A Given Condition Is The Immediate Cause Of That Phenomenon. It Must Still Be Established That When This Condition Is Removed, The Phenomen Will No Longer Appear.

Men Who Believe Too Firmly In Their Theories, Do Not Believe Enough In The Theories Of Others. So ... These Despisers Of Their Fellows ... Make Experiments Only To Destroy A Theory, Instead Of To Seek The Truth.