We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
CLAUDE BERNARDIn science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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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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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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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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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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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.
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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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.
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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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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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