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.
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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The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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Priestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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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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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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A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.
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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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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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The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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Feeling alone guides the mind.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.
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