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Men Quotes by Claude Bernard
- In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective…
- 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…
- Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by…
- The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
- Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge
- 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;…
- A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and…
- Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet…
- Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are…
- 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…
- I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as…
- 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 ...…
- With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot…
- Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
- The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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