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“It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”

“True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance.”

Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

“A great surgeon performs operations for stone by a single method; later he makes a statistical summary of deaths and recoveries, and he concludes from these statistics that the mortality law for this operation is two out of five. Well, I say that this ratio means literally nothing scientifically and gives us no certainty in performing the next operation; for we do not know whether the next case will be among the recoveries or the deaths. What really should be done, instead of gathering facts empirically, is to study them more accurately, each in its special determinism…. to discover in them the cause of mortal accidents so as to master the cause and avoid the accidents.”

Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)