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Experiments Quotes by Claude Bernard
- In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
- Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by…
- We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
- It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question…
- 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.
- The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
- 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…
- Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter their…
- As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the…
- Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of…
- Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.
- Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their…
- Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So ... these despisers of their fellows ...…
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