Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Knowledge is the life of the mind.
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