The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
CLAUDE BERNARDObervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
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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 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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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
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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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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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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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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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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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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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