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Progress Is Achieved By Exchanging Our Theories For New Ones Which Go Further Than The Old, Until We Find One Based On A Larger Number Of Facts. ... Theories Are Only Hypotheses, Verified By More Or Less Numerous Facts. Those Verified By The Most Facts Are The Best, But Even Then They Are Never Final, Never To Be Absolutely Believed.

In Every Enterprise ... The Mind Is Always Reasoning, And, Even When We Seem To Act Without A Motive, An Instinctive Logic Still Directs The Mind. Only We Are Not Aware Of It, Because We Begin By Reasoning Before We Know Or Say That We Are Reasoning, Just As We Begin By Speaking Before We Observe That We Are Speaking, And Just As We Begin By Seeing And Hearing Before We Know What We See Or What We Hear.

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.

Men Who Have Excessive Faith In Their Theories ... Make Poor Observations, Because They Choose Among The Results Of Their Experiments Only What Suits Their Object, Neglecting Whatever Is Unrelated To It And Carefully Setting Aside Everything Which Might Tend Toward The Idea They Wish To Combat

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.