The Terrain Is Everything; The Germ Is

Science Does Not Permit Exceptions.

In These Researches I Followed The Principles Of The Experimental Method That We Have Established, I.e., That, In Presence Of A Well-noted, New Fact Which Contradicts A Theory, Instead Of Keeping The Theory And Abandoning The Fact, I Should Keep And Study The Fact, And I Hastened To Give Up The Theory.

The True Worth Of An Experimenter Consists In His Pursuing Not Only What He Seeks In His Experiment, But Also What He Did Not Seek.

A Contemporary Poet Has Characterized This Sense Of The Personality Of Art And Of The Impersonality Of Science In These Words,-'art Is Myself; Science Is Ourselves. '

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.