The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
CLAUDE BERNARDAll the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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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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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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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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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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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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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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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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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.
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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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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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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 investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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