Claude Bernard Quotes

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

  Claude Bernard

  Inspirational, Educational, Learning

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• When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

  Claude Bernard

  Acceptance, Science, Names

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Doe, Knows

  Claude Bernard, Eugene Debs Robin (1979). “Claude Bernard and the internal environment: a memorial symposium”

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• The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.

  Claude Bernard

  Germs, Terrain

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• Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

  Claude Bernard

  Learning, Science, Men

  Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Volume IV, 1928.

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• We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

  Claude Bernard

  Knowledge, Science, Achievement

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• Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

  Claude Bernard

  Men, Mediocrity, Mediocre

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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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 dose.

  Claude Bernard

  Drug, Poison, Matter

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• Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

  Claude Bernard

  Discovery, Joy, Torment

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.239, Courier Corporation

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• All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

  Claude Bernard

  Environment, Constant, Internals

  Claude Bernard, Eugene Debs Robin (1979). “Claude Bernard and the internal environment: a memorial symposium”

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• Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Men, Discovery

  Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt I, Ch. 2, Sect. III

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• True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

  Claude Bernard

  Ignorance, Science, Doubt

  Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. VII

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• Feeling alone guides the mind.

  Claude Bernard

  Passion, Feeling Alone, Feelings

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Self, Mind

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• Art is 'I'; science is 'we'.

  Claude Bernard

  Witty, Art, Science

  Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Volume IV, 1928.

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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.

  Claude Bernard

  Ideas, Facts, Proof

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• It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means that it is better to know nothing than to keep in mind fixed ideas based on theories whose confirmation we constantly seek, neglecting meanwhile everything that fails to agree with them.

  Claude Bernard

  Knowledge, Mean, Science

  "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine".

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• The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.

  Claude Bernard

  Thinking, Mind, Influence

  "Pensées". Book by Claude Bernard, 1937.

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• Science does not permit exceptions.

  Claude Bernard

  Doe, Permit, Exception

  1855^6 Lessons of Experimental Pathology.

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• Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Doe, Causes

  Claude Bernard, Henry Copley Greene (1957). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

  Claude Bernard

  Nature, Believe, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number of facts. ... Theories are only hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Numbers, Progress

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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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 to understand its history, so also it is not enough to know the anatomy of organs to understand their functions.

  Claude Bernard

  Country, Anatomy And Physiology, Typography

  Claude Bernard (1974). “Lectures on the phenomena of life common to animals and plants”, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd

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• We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎

  Claude Bernard

  Nature, Science, Natural

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

  Claude Bernard

  Teaching, Pride, Reality

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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