The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
CLAUDE BERNARDWith 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.
CLAUDE BERNARDA great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.
CLAUDE BERNARDThose 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.
CLAUDE BERNARDArt is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
CLAUDE BERNARDA 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.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe 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.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe 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 BERNARDPut 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.
CLAUDE BERNARDMediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
CLAUDE BERNARDWe must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
CLAUDE BERNARDParticular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
CLAUDE BERNARDScience rejects the indeterminate.
CLAUDE BERNARDExperiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
CLAUDE BERNARDEffects 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.
CLAUDE BERNARDFirst causes are outside the realm of science.
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