Put 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.
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Put 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 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 BERNARDObervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
CLAUDE BERNARDScience does not permit exceptions.
CLAUDE BERNARDEverything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
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 BERNARDFeeling alone guides the mind.
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 BERNARDIn science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
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 BERNARDThose who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
CLAUDE BERNARDScience rejects the indeterminate.
CLAUDE BERNARDWe must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
CLAUDE BERNARDTrue science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
CLAUDE BERNARDWe achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
CLAUDE BERNARDPriestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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