A 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 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 BERNARDScience does not permit exceptions.
CLAUDE BERNARDScience admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
CLAUDE BERNARDTrue science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
CLAUDE BERNARDWe must keep our freedom of mind, and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
CLAUDE BERNARDNow, 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.
CLAUDE BERNARDObervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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 BERNARDIn the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
CLAUDE BERNARDIn 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.
CLAUDE BERNARDFirst causes are outside the realm of science.
CLAUDE BERNARDExperiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
CLAUDE BERNARDA fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
CLAUDE BERNARDWhen we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
CLAUDE BERNARDScience increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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