"Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an……" — Claude Bernard
"Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science."
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Claude Bernard
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79 Quotes by Claude Bernard
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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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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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Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the…
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More Active Quotes
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
— Robert Ballard
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
— Annie Besant
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
— William Blake
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers…
— Allen Boyd
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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
— Charlotte Bronte
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
— Jerry Brown
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
— Les Brown
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