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Mind Quotes by Claude Bernard
- 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 great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most…
- 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.…
- Feeling alone guides the mind.
- In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the…
- It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means that…
- 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…
- We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
- The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful…
- The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.
- The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle