But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe 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.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So these despisers of their fellows make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.
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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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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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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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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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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
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In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
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