We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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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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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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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
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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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We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
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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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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.
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In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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