We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
CLAUDE BERNARDOur ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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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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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
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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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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.
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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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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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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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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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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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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