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Put Off Your Imagination, As You Put Off Your Overcoat, When You Enter The Laboratory. Put It On Again, As You Put On Your Overcoat, When You Leave.

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.

A Fact In Itself Is Nothing. It Is Valuable Only For The Idea Attached To It, Or For The Proof Which It Furnishes.

Effects Vary With The Conditions Which Bring Them To Pass, But Laws Do Not Vary. Physiological And Pathological States Are Ruled By The Same Forces; They Differ Only Because Of The Special Conditions Under Which The Vital Laws Manifest Themselves.

We Must Remain, In A Word, In An Intellectual Disposition Which Seems Paradoxical, But Which, In My Opinion, Represents The True Mind Of The Investigator. We Must Have A Robust Faith And Yet Not Believe.