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As Soon As The Circumstances Of An Experiment Are Well Known, We Stop Gathering Statistics. ... The Effect Will Occur Always Without Exception, Because The Cause Of The Phenomena Is Accurately Defined. Only When A Phenomenon Includes Conditions As Yet Undefined,only When A Phenomenon Includes Conditions As Yet Undefined, Can We Compile Statistics. ... We Must Learn Therefore That We Compile Statistics Only When We Cannot Possibly Help It; For In My Opinion, Statistics Can Never Yield Scientific Truth.

The Physiologist Is Not A Man Of The World, He Is A Scientist, A Man Caught And Absorbed By A Scientific Idea That He Pursues; He No Longer Hears The Cries Of The Animals, No Longer Sees The Flowing Blood, He Sees Only His Idea: Organisms That Hide From Him Problems That He Wants To Discover. He Doesn't Feel That He Is In A Horrible Carnage; Under The Influence Of A Scientific Idea, He Pursues With Delight A Nervous Filament Inside Stinking And Livid Flesh That For Any Other Person Would Be An Object Of Disgust And Horror.

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.

If I Had To Define Life In A Single Phrase, I Should Clearly Express My Thought Of Throwing Into Relief One Characteristic Which, In My Opinion, Sharply Differentiates Biological Science. I Should Say: Life Is Creation.

We Must Keep Our Freedom Of Mind, ... And Must Believe That In Nature What Is Absurd, According To Our Theories, Is Not Always Impossible.