In The Philosophic Sense, Observation Shows And

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.

The Great Experimental Principle, Then, Is Doubt, That Philosophic Doubt Which Leaves To The Mind Its Freedom And Initiative, And From Which The Virtues Most Valuable To Investigators In Physiology And Medicine Are Derived.

The Physiologist Is Not A Man Of The World, He Is A Scientist, A Man Caught And Absorbed By A Scientific Idea That He Pursues; He No Longer Hears The Cries Of The Animals, No Longer Sees The Flowing Blood, He Sees Only His Idea: Organisms That Hide From Him Problems That He Wants To Discover. He Doesn't Feel That He Is In A Horrible Carnage; Under The Influence Of A Scientific Idea, He Pursues With Delight A Nervous Filament Inside Stinking And Livid Flesh That For Any Other Person Would Be An Object Of Disgust And Horror.

A Man Of Science Rises Ever, In Seeking Truth; And If He Never Finds It In Its Wholeness, He Discovers Nevertheless Very Significant Fragments; And These Fragments Of Universal Truth Are Precisely What Constitutes Science.

Science Does Not Permit Exceptions.