The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
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Anand Thakur
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
CLAUDE BERNARDOur 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 BERNARDThe experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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 BERNARDThose who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
CLAUDE BERNARDScience does not permit exceptions.
CLAUDE BERNARDWith the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.
CLAUDE BERNARDPriestley said that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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 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 BERNARDTheories 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.
CLAUDE BERNARDThe minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
CLAUDE BERNARDMen 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.
CLAUDE BERNARDScience admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
CLAUDE BERNARDIn science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
CLAUDE BERNARDFeeling alone guides the mind.
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