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.
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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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
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Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.
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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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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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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 experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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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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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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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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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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Our 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.
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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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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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