Science Rejects The Indeterminate.

Man Does Not Limit Himself To Seeing; He Thinks And Insists On Learning The Meaning Of Phenomena Whose Existence Has Been Revealed To Him By Observation. So He Reasons, Compares Facts, Puts Questions To Them, And By The Answers Which He Extracts, Tests One By Another. This Sort Of Control, By Means Of Reasoning And Facts, Is What Constitutes Experiment, Properly Speaking; And It Is The Only Process That We Have For Teaching Ourselves About The Nature Of Things Outside Us.

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.

A Man Of Science Rises Ever, In Seeking Truth; And If He Never Finds It In Its Wholeness, He Discovers Nevertheless Very Significant Fragments; And These Fragments Of Universal Truth Are Precisely What Constitutes Science.

We Achieve More Than We Know. We Know More Than We Understand. We Understand More Than We Can Explain.

When Entering On New Ground We Must Not Be Afraid To Express Even Risky Ideas So As To Stimulate Research In All Directions. As Priestley Put It, We Must Not Remain Inactive Through False Modesty Based On Fear Of Being Mistaken.