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Claude Bernard [1813-1878] French

Rank: 102
Scientist, Physiologist

Claude Bernard was a French physiologist. Historian Ierome Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science".

Science, Art, Imagination, Learning

Quote	Tags	Rank
Art is I; science is we.	Art, Science	101
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.		102
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.	Science	103
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.	Learning	104
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.		105
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.	Science	106
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.	Imagination	107
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.		108
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.		109
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.		110
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.		111
Experimentation is an active science.		112
Science does not permit exceptions.		113

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