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.
CLAUDE BERNARDThose who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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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We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
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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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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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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 joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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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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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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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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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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