The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
CLAUDE BERNARDA great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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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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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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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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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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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 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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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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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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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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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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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 investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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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 minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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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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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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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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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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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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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 joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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