"The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing," — Claude Bernard

"The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing,"

— Claude Bernard

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79 Quotes by Claude Bernard

Claude Bernard has 79 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as…
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof…
Science does not permit exceptions.
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that…
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has…
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question;…
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences.…

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