Claude Bernard quotes - page 2

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)
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning. View quote
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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. View quote
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