"Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we……" — Claude Bernard
"Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough."
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Claude Bernard
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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 Blunt Quotes
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
— Chinua Achebe
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which…
— Max Beerbohm
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I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
— Tupac Shakur
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Just hit the blunt one time and see if it don't change your perception on whats important in your life.
— Katt Williams
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
— Thomas Paine
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
— Eric Hoffer
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The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous.…
— Gregory Bateson
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He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making,…
— William Shakespeare
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Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the…
— Astley Cooper
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Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally…
— Alan Dershowitz
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One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide…
— Unknown Author
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