The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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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 rejects the indeterminate.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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The goal of scientific physicians in their own science … is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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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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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
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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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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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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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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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