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.
CLAUDE BERNARDMediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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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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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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The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.
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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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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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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 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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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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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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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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