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• When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know the evolution of the disease, its duration and gravity in order to predict its course and outcome. Here statistics intervene to guide physicians, by teaching them the proportion of mortal cases, and if observation has also shown that the successful and unsuccessful cases can be recognized by certain signs, then the prognosis is more certain.

  Claude Bernard

  Teaching, Successful, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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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 are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.

  Claude Bernard

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.70, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

  Claude Bernard

  Death, Science, Light

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

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

  Claude Bernard

  Practice, Accepting, Theory

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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