Desire for knowledge Quote by Claude Bernard

“The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.” quote by Claude Bernard — Download Open image

“The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.”

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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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Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire…

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