Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
CLAUDE BERNARDPriestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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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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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
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A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.
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The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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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.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
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The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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