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
A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very… — 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
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ...… — 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 eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes,… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain. — 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
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science. — 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
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and… — 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
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them. — 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
