It Is What We Know Already That

With The Aid Of These Active Experimental Sciences Man Becomes An Inventor Of Phenomena, A Real Foreman Of Creation; And Under This Head We Cannot Set Limits To The Power That He May Gain Over Nature Through Future Progress Of The Experimental Sciences.

A Contemporary Poet Has Characterized This Sense Of The Personality Of Art And Of The Impersonality Of Science In These Words,-'art Is Myself; Science Is Ourselves. '

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.

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.

I Do Not ... Reject The Use Of Statistics In Medicine, But I Condemn Not Trying To Get Beyond Them And Believing In Statistics As The Foundation Of Medical Science. ... Statistics ... Apply Only To Cases In Which The Cause Of The Facts Observed Is Still [uncertain Or] Indeterminate. ... There Will Always Be Some Indeterminism ... In All The Sciences, And More In Medicine Than In Any Other. But Man's Intellectual Conquest Consists In Lessening And Driving Back Indeterminism In Proportion As He Gains Ground For Determinism By The Help Of The Experimental Method.