"The first requirement in using statistics is that……" — Claude Bernard
"The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units."
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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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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 Comparable Quotes
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
— Ansel Adams
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Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess…
— Bob Beauprez
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A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear,…
— Anatoli Boukreev
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The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be…
— Paul Virilio
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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a…
— Edward Hoagland
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To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a…
— Edward Hoagland
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Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single…
— John Dewey
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Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli…
— Charles Francis Richter
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In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is…
— Sigmund Freud
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The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are…
— Linus Pauling
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Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
— Richard Dawkins
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