Priestley [said] That Each Discovery We Make

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.

The Stability Of The Internal Medium Is A Primary Condition For The Freedom And Independence Of Certain Living Bodies In Relation To The Environment Surrounding Them.

Well-observed Facts, Though Brought To Light By Passing Theories, Will Never Die; They Are The Material On Which Alone The House Of Science Will At Last Be Built.

We Must Alter Theory To Adapt It To Nature, But Not Nature To Adapt It To Theory.‎

The First Entirely Vital Action, So Termed Because It Is Not Effected Outside The Influence Of Life, Consists In The Creation Of The Glycogenic Material In The Living Hepatic Tissue. The Second Entirely Chemical Action, Which Can Be Effected Outside The Influence Of Life, Consists In The Transformation Of The Glycogenic Material Into Sugar By Means Of A Ferment.