Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
CLAUDE BERNARDIt is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
More Claude Bernard Quotes
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A 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.
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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
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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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The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.
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Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
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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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Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
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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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Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So these despisers of their fellows make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.
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Science does not permit exceptions.
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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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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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First causes are outside the realm of science.
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The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
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