Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
CLAUDE BERNARDFeeling alone guides the mind.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.
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In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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We must keep our freedom of mind, and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
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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. ‘
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If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.
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The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.
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Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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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.
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The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.
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