Science Does Not Permit Exceptions.

Mediocre Men Often Have The Most Acquired Knowledge. It Is In The Darker. It Is In The Darker Regions Of Science That Great Men Are Recognized; They Are Marked By Ideas Which Light Up Phenomena Hitherto Obscure And Carry Science Forward.

Theories Are Like A Stairway; By Climbing, Science Widens Its Horizon More And More, Because Theories Embody And Necessarily Include Proportionately More Facts As They Advance.

Our Ideas Are Only Intellectual Instruments Which We Use To Break Into Phenomena; We Must Change Them When They Have Served Their Purpose, As We Change A Blunt Lancet That We Have Used Long Enough.

When A Physician Is Called To A Patient, He Should Decide On The Diagnosis, Then The Prognosis, And Then The Treatment. ... Physicians Must Know The Evolution Of The Disease, Its Duration And Gravity In Order To Predict Its Course And Outcome. Here Statistics Intervene To Guide Physicians, By Teaching Them The Proportion Of Mortal Cases, And If Observation Has Also Shown That The Successful And Unsuccessful Cases Can Be Recognized By Certain Signs, Then The Prognosis Is More Certain.

Science Admits No Exceptions; Otherwise There Would Be No Determinism In Science, Or Rather, There Would Be No Science.