The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
CLAUDE BERNARDArt is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.
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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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The goal of scientific physicians in their own science … is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.
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The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-‘Art is myself; science is ourselves. ‘
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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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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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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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Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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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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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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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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