Claude Bernard: Quotes about science

Claude Bernard was French physiologist. Explore interesting quotes on science.

Claude Bernard: 42 quotes1 like

“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)

“A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.”

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

“Science does not permit exceptions.”

Lessons of Experimental Pathology (1855-1856)

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

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

“Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness…. A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.”

Leçons de Pathologie Expérimentale (1872).

“Science repulses the indefinite.”

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