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.
CLAUDE BERNARDParticular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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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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The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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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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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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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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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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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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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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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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