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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.

Laplace Considers Astronomy A Science Of Observation, Because We Can Only Observe The Movements Of The Planets; We Cannot Reach Them, Indeed, To Alter Their Course And To Experiment With Them. "on Earth," Said Laplace, "we Make Phenomena Vary By Experiments; In The Sky, We Carefully Define All The Phenomena Presented To Us By Celestial Motion." Certain Physicians Call Medicine A Science Of Observations, Because They Wrongly Think That Experimentation Is Inapplicable To It.

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.

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.

Experiment Is Fundamentally Only Induced Observation.