We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
CLAUDE BERNARDThose who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
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We must keep our freedom of mind, and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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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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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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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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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.
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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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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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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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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 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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