Claude BernardIn the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches. ✨ Claude Bernard (2012). An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, p.35, Courier Corporation… ▶341Reflection
Claude BernardWe 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 fa… ▶352HopeThoughtTime
Claude BernardEffects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of th… ▶331Politics
Claude BernardIn a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but the true sanctuary of medical sc… ▶375LifePoliticsReflection
Claude BernardThe terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.331Humor
Claude BernardFeeling alone guides the mind. ✨ Claude Bernard (2012). An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, p.71, Courier Corporation364Thought
Claude BernardOur 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… ▶321Thought
Claude BernardThe constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the maintenance, with the inte… ▶366Life
Claude BernardPut off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.334Truth
Claude BernardThe true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.313Truth
Claude BernardIf 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 … ▶335LifeThought
Claude BernardThe fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.281TimeTruth
Claude BernardMan 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 f… ▶303LifePhilosophyThought
Claude BernardMediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge ✨ Claude Bernard (2012). An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, p.70, Courier Corporation304Hope
Claude BernardWell-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 B… ▶327DeathTruth
Claude BernardLaplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter their course and to experime… ▶306ReflectionThoughtTime
Claude BernardScience increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride. ✨ Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Volume IV, 1928.262Politics
Claude BernardNow, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism. ✨ Cl… ▶318Life
Claude BernardWe achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.3210Sadness
Claude BernardThe great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investiga… ▶298Thought
Claude BernardTheories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance. 254Truth
Claude BernardTrue science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain. ✨ Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. VII3110Truth
Claude BernardA contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. ' ✨ Clau… ▶244Sadness
Claude BernardScience does not permit exceptions. ✨ 1855^6 Lessons of Experimental Pathology.277Reading
Claude BernardA fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.244ThoughtTruth
Claude BernardIn 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, bec… ▶233Thought
Claude BernardTo 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 mate… ▶278PoliticsTruth
Claude BernardIt is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question without an idea which in… ▶224ReflectionThought
Claude BernardWe must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them. ✨ Claude Bernard Experimental Medicine, Transaction Publishers279Thought
Claude BernardWe must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory. ✨ Claude Bernard (2012). An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, p.68, Cour… ▶202Truth
