Claude Bernard quotes - page 2

Claude Bernard was a renowned French physiologist, considered one of the founders of experimental medicine. His groundbreaking research laid the foundation for understanding the internal environment of living organisms. He transformed physiology into a rigorous scientific discipline and remains a lasting influence in the field. Here are 30 of his quotes:

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

Claude Bernard

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

Claude Bernard

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

Claude Bernard

A great surgeon performs operations for stone by a single method; later he makes a statistical summary of deaths and recoveries, and he concludes from these statistics that the mortality law for this operation is two out of five. Well, I say that this ratio means literally nothing scientifically and gives us no certainty in performing the next operation; for we do not know whether the next case will be among the recoveries or the deaths. What really should be done, instead of gathering facts empirically, is to study them more accurately, each in its special determinism....to discover in them the cause of mortal accidents so as to master the cause and avoid the accidents.

Claude Bernard