Claude Bernard Quotes

• Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

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• True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

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• Science rejects the indeterminate.

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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 teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by providing 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.

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• Art is I; Science is We.

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• Art is I; science is we.

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• A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

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• Experimentation is an active science.

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• In 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.

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• It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

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• Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

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• Science does not permit exceptions.

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• Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

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• Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

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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.

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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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• The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe.

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• 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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Claude Bernard (19)

Birth:	12th July, 1813
Death:	10th February, 1878
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Physiologist

About

Claude Bernard was born in Saint-Julien, france. He was a French physiologist. Historian I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science". Among many other accomplishments, he was one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations. In 1847 he was appointed Magendie's deputy-professor at the college, and in 1855 he succeeded him as full professor. His field of research was considered inferior at the time, the laboratory assigned to him was simply a "regular cellar".

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