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• The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

  Claude Bernard

  Truth, Experiments, True Worth

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• Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

  Claude Bernard

  Facts, Particular, Generalization

  1865 An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, vol.1, ch.1, section 3 (translated by H C Greene).

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• Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

  Claude Bernard

  Pride, Science, Increase

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

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• Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.

  Claude Bernard

  Ideas, Long, Intellectual

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

  Claude Bernard

  Light, Discovery, Ideas

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Ideas, Entering

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.185, Courier Corporation

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

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Men, Discovery

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

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• A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Discovery, Theory

  Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865)

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• I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as the foundation of medical science. ... Statistics ... apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still [uncertain or] indeterminate. ... There will always be some indeterminism ... in all the sciences, and more in medicine than in any other. But man's intellectual conquest consists in lessening and driving back indeterminism in proportion as he gains ground for determinism by the help of the experimental method.

  Claude Bernard

  Believe, Science, Men

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• The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

  Claude Bernard

  Believe, Science, Men

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

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• Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Observation, Experiments

  Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt I, Sect. V

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• The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

  Claude Bernard

  Long, Kitchen, May

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• First causes are outside the realm of science.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Firsts, Causes

  An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (p. 66)

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• The eloquence of a scientist is clarity; scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is tricked out in the embellishments with which our imagination would seek to clothe it.

  Claude Bernard

  Imagination, Clarity, Truth Is

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• In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

  Claude Bernard

  Moving, Ideas, Moving Ahead

  1865 An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, vol.1, ch.1, section 3 (translated by H C Greene).

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• To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art of establishing experimental facts, which are the materials of science, he must also clearly understand the scientific principles which guide his reasoning through the varied experimental study of natural phenomena. We cannot separate these two things: head and hand. An able hand, without a head to direct it, is a blind tool; the head is powerless without its executive hand.

  Claude Bernard

  Art, Science, Two

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Ideas, Experiments

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Discovery, Mind

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

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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 yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery which is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

  Claude Bernard

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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

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

  Claude Bernard

  Believe, Should Have, Belief

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• Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.

  Claude Bernard

  Hatred, Genius, Next

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• The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

  Claude Bernard

  Independence, Body, Environment

  "Leçons sur les Phénomènes de la Vie Communs aux Animaux et aux Végétaux". Book by Claude Bernard, 1878.

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• The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he pursues; he no longer hears the cries of the animals, no longer sees the flowing blood, he sees only his idea: organisms that hide from him problems that he wants to discover. He doesn't feel that he is in a horrible carnage; under the influence of a scientific idea, he pursues with delight a nervous filament inside stinking and livid flesh that for any other person would be an object of disgust and horror.

  Claude Bernard

  Animal, Men, Blood

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• [Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Discovery, Ideas

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• 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.

  Claude Bernard

  Life, Science, Relief

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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