Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
CLAUDE BERNARDWe must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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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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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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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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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active 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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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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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Science does not permit exceptions.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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