"Now, a living organism is nothing but a……" — Claude Bernard
"Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism."
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79 Quotes by Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard has 79 quotes on this site.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as…
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The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof…
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Science does not permit exceptions.
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In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that…
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has…
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question;…
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Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences.…
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More Biochemistry Quotes
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It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will…
— Sydney Brenner
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The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the…
— Claude Bernard
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There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living…
— Jacques Monod
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A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system…
— Unknown Author
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All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin,…
— Archibald Garrod
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As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained…
— Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same…
— Warren Weaver
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For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that…
— Unknown Author
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making…
— Robert Boyle
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In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries…
— Marjory Stephenson
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Inborn errors of metabolism.
— Archibald Garrod
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Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
— Erwin Chargaff
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