Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
- Claude Bernard
More Quotes By Claude Bernard
- The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes...
- Art is ‘I’; science is ‘we’.
- True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
- Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature...
- It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
- The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
- When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the...
- Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
- A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for...
- Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries;...
- Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to...
- The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.
- Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
- All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions...
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