Claude Bernard Quotes

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Art is I; science is we. - Claude Bernard quote.
Art is I; science is we.
— Claude Bernard Quantum Consciousness

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Science does not permit exceptions. - Claude Bernard quote.
Science does not permit exceptions.
— Claude Bernard
The investigator should have a robust faith—and yet not believe. - Claude Bernard quote.
The investigator should have a robust faith—and yet not believe.
— Claude Bernard

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Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. - Claude Bernard quote.
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
— Claude Bernard
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. - Claude Bernard quote.
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
— Claude Bernard
The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science. - Claude Bernard quote.
The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
— Claude Bernard

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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. - Claude Bernard quote.
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
— Claude Bernard The Art of Scientific Investigation

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It seems, indeed, a necessary weakness of our mind to be able to reach truth only across a multitude of errors and obstacles. - Claude Bernard quote.
It seems, indeed, a necessary weakness of our mind to be able to reach truth only across a multitude of errors and obstacles.
— Claude Bernard An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

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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. - Claude Bernard quote.
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 Bernard

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Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. - Claude Bernard quote.
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations.
— Claude Bernard The Art of Scientific Investigation

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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. - Claude Bernard quote.
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.
— Claude Bernard The Dreams of Reason

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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 Bernard quote.
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 Bernard An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

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The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
— Claude Bernard

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