We Must Keep Our Freedom

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.

In A Word, I Consider Hospitals Only As The Entrance To Scientific Medicine; They Are The First Field Of Observation Which A Physician Enters; But The True Sanctuary Of Medical Science Is A Laboratory; Only There Can He Seek Explanations Of Life In The Normal And Pathological States By Means Of Experimental Analysis.

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.

The Eloquence Of A Scientist Is Clarity; Scientific Truth Is Always More Luminous When Its Beauty Is Unadorned Than When It Is Tricked Out In The Embellishments With Which Our Imagination Would Seek To Clothe It.

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.