It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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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.
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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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Science does not permit exceptions.
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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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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 investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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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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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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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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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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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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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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