Biological science Quote by Claude Bernard

“If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.”

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In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs…

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Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country…

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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men…

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Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and…

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The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

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Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry…

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Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of…

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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

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We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the…

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The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and…

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But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

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