A Discovery Is Generally An Unforeseen Relation

But While I Accept Specialization In The Practice, I Reject It Utterly In The Theory Of Science.

Now, A Living Organism Is Nothing But A Wonderful Machine Endowed With The Most Marvellous Properties And Set Going By Means Of The Most Complex And Delicate Mechanism.

All The Vital Mechanisms, Varied As They Are, Have Only One Object, That Of Preserving Constant The Conditions Of Life In The Internal Environment.

Progress Is Achieved By Exchanging Our Theories For New Ones Which Go Further Than The Old, Until We Find One Based On A Larger Number Of Facts. ... Theories Are Only Hypotheses, Verified By More Or Less Numerous Facts. Those Verified By The Most Facts Are The Best, But Even Then They Are Never Final, Never To Be Absolutely Believed.

The Joy Of Discovery Is Certainly The Liveliest That The Mind Of Man Can Ever Feel.