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.
CLAUDE BERNARDA discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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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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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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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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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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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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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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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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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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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
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