The Terrain Is Everything; The Germ Is

In Science, The Best Precept Is To Alter And Exchange Our Ideas As Fast As Science Moves Ahead.

The Fact That Knowledge Endlessly Recedes As The Investigator Is About To Grasp It Is What Constitutes At The Same Time His Torment And Happiness.

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.

Art Is 'i'; Science Is 'we'.

[those] Who Have An Excessive Faith In Their Theories Or In Their Ideas Are Not Only Poorly Disposed To Make Discoveries, But They Also Make Very Poor Observations.