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.
CLAUDE BERNARDIf 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.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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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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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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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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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.
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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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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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