In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
CLAUDE BERNARDIn teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
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The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
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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.
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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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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Science does not permit exceptions.
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎
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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So these despisers of their fellows make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.
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The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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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 doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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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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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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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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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.
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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.
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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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