Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
CLAUDE BERNARDEverything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
CLAUDE BERNARDScience rejects the indeterminate.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe 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.
CLAUDE BERNARDMediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.
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.
CLAUDE BERNARDA contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-‘Art is myself; science is ourselves. ‘
CLAUDE BERNARDIn science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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 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 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 joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is tricked out in the embellishments with which our imagination would seek to clothe it.
CLAUDE BERNARDPriestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
CLAUDE BERNARDHatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
CLAUDE BERNARDA 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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