Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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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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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.
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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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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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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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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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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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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.
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