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In These Researches I Followed The Principles Of The Experimental Method That We Have Established, I.e., That, In Presence Of A Well-noted, New Fact Which Contradicts A Theory, Instead Of Keeping The Theory And Abandoning The Fact, I Should Keep And Study The Fact, And I Hastened To Give Up The Theory.

It Is Impossible To Devise An Experiment Without A Preconceived Idea; Devising An Experiment, We Said, Is Putting A Question; We Never Conceive A Question Without An Idea Which Invites An Answer. I Consider It, Therefore, An Absolute Principle That Experiments Must Always Be Devised In View Of A Preconceived Idea, No Matter If The Idea Be Not Very Clear Nor Very Well Defined.

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.

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 Science Of Life Is A Superb And Dazzlingly Lighted Hall Which May Be Reached Only By Passing Through A Long And Ghastly Kitchen.