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
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
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
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science. — 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
