The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
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
The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really… — 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
To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
In these researches I followed the principles of the experimental method that we have established, i.e., that, in presence of a well-noted,… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as the foundation of medical science. ... Statistics ... apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still [uncertain or] indeterminate. ... There will…” quote by Claude Bernard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7d9/claude-bernard-7455_believe_i-do-not-reject-the-use-of-statistics-in_1882908.jpg)
