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• In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Statistics, Succeed

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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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 investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.

  Claude Bernard

  Faith, Believe, Science

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• Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Observation, Passive

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• Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward the idea they wish to combat

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Men, Ideas

  Claude Bernard, Henry Copley Greene (1957). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by observation. So he reasons, compares facts, puts questions to them, and by the answers which he extracts, tests one by another. This sort of control, by means of reasoning and facts, is what constitutes experiment, properly speaking; and it is the only process that we have for teaching ourselves about the nature of things outside us.

  Claude Bernard

  Teaching, Mean, Science

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• The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Goal, Physicians

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Observation, Teach

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So ... these despisers of their fellows ... make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.

  Claude Bernard

  Believe, Science, Men

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Statistics, Requirements

  An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (p. 136)

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• Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Discovery, Made

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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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 the mind. Only we are not aware of it, because we begin by reasoning before we know or say that we are reasoning, just as we begin by speaking before we observe that we are speaking, and just as we begin by seeing and hearing before we know what we see or what we hear.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Mind, Hearing

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