The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
CLAUDE BERNARDHatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
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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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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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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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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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We must keep our freedom of mind, and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
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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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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.
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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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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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