Claude Bernard Quotes

Claude Bernard was a French physiologist. Historian I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science". Among many other accomplishments, he was one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations. He originated the term milieu intérieur, and the associated concept of homeostasis . Wikipedia  

✵ 12. July 1813 – 10. February 1878
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Famous Claude Bernard Quotes

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

Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

“Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.”

Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)

“Science does not permit exceptions.”

Lessons of Experimental Pathology (1855-1856)

Claude Bernard Quotes about science

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

Source: Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)

“Science repulses the indefinite.”

Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)

“True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance.”

Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

Claude Bernard Quotes

“Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.”

Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

“Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.”

Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

“If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.”

Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

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