Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
CLAUDE BERNARDPriestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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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.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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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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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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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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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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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.
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