Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.
CLAUDE BERNARDA man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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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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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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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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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 does not permit exceptions.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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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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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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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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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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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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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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