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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.

Claude Bernard

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Claude Bernard
Age: 64 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 12
Died: 1878
Died: February 10
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Science does not permit exceptions.
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Il ne fallait jamais faire des expériences pour confirmer ses idées, mais simplement pour les contrôler. We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
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The eloquence of a scientist is clarity scientific truth is always more luminous when its beauty is unadorned than when it is tricked out in the embellishments with which our imagination would seek to clothe it.
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Science rejects the indeterminate.
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The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
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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.
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The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
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A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself science is ourselves. '
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All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
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The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
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The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
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Science admits no exceptions otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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