All Claude Bernard Quotes
- If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my… Biological
- In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but… Analysis
- We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎ Adapt
- 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. Consists
- The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science. Believe
- The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most… Derived
- We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator.… Believe
- 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 dose. All
- Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces;… Bring
- 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. Constitutes
- Feeling alone guides the mind. Alone
- 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… Blunt
- Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge Acquired
- The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing, Funny
- The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen. Dazzlingly
- The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding… Bodies
- The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he pursues;… Absorbed
- The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds. Doe
- In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the… Act
- Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in relation to its… Accurately