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.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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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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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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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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Science does not permit exceptions.
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A 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.
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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 must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
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Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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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 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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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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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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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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