We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
CLAUDE BERNARDIt is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
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Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
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In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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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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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
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We must keep our freedom of mind, and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
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The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
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Those 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.
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Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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