We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
CLAUDE BERNARDA discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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The 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.
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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 experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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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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If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.
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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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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.
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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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