When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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Those who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.
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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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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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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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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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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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We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.
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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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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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The 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.
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