A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Il ne fallait jamais faire des expériences pour confirmer ses idées, mais simplement pour les contrôler. We must never make experiments to… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth.… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs… — Claude Bernard Copy Share
Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country… — Claude Bernard Copy Share
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men… — Claude Bernard Copy Share
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and… — Claude Bernard Copy Share
If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in… — Claude Bernard Copy Share
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry… — Claude Bernard Copy Share
Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of… — Claude Bernard Copy Share
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 Copy Share
We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the… — Claude Bernard Copy Share
The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and… — Claude Bernard Copy Share
But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share
Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits… — Claude Bernard Copy Share
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