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Claude Bernard

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It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.


— Claude Bernard


#education

Art is I; science is we.


— Claude Bernard


#i #science

Put 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.


— Claude Bernard


#enter #imagination #laboratory #leave #off

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.


— Claude Bernard


#consists #did #experiment #experimenter #his

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.


— Claude Bernard


#fact #furnishes #idea #itself #nothing

Experimentation is an active science.


— Claude Bernard


#experimentation #science

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.


— Claude Bernard


#know #learning #often #prevents #us

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.


— Claude Bernard


#knowledge #mediocre #mediocre men #men #most

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.


— Claude Bernard


#experimentation #observation #passive #science

Science does not permit exceptions.


— Claude Bernard


#exceptions #permit #science






About Claude Bernard

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Did you know about Claude Bernard?

He firmly believed that the advancement of medicine and the relief of human suffering justified the suffering of animals but his wife was not convinced. ” In fact a “very frequent application of mathematics to biology [is] the use of averages”—that is statistics—which may give only “apparent accuracy. "


Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
In his major discourse on scientific method An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Claude Bernard describes what makes a scientific theory good and what makes a scientist important a true discoverer.

Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science". Historian of science I.

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