Science Admits No Exceptions; Otherwise There Would

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.

Men Who Have Excessive Faith In Their Theories Or Ideas Are Not Only Ill Prepared For Making Discoveries; They Also Make Very Poor Observations. Of Necessity, They Observe With A Preconceived Idea, And When They Devise An Experiment, They Can See, In Its Results,only A Confirmation Of Their Theory. In This Way They Distort Observation And Often Neglect Very Important Facts Because They Do Not Further Their Aim.

Hatred Is The Most Clear- Sighted, Next To Genius.

A Great Discovery Is A Fact Whose Appearance In Science Gives Rise To Shining Ideas, Whose Light Dispels Many Obscurities And Shows Us New Paths.

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.