Claude Bernard Quotes about Science - Page 3

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

Claude Bernard

Science, Goal, Physicians

Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.161, Courier Corporation

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

Claude Bernard

Science, Discovery, Mind

Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.66, Courier Corporation

Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So ... these despisers of their fellows ... make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth.

Claude Bernard

Believe, Science, Men

Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.67, Courier Corporation

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

Claude Bernard

Science, Statistics, Requirements

An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (p. 136)

In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the mind. Only we are not aware of it, because we begin by reasoning before we know or say that we are reasoning, just as we begin by speaking before we observe that we are speaking, and just as we begin by seeing and hearing before we know what we see or what we hear.

Claude Bernard

Science, Mind, Hearing

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

Claude Bernard

Science, Discovery, Made

Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

Claude Bernard

Death, Science, Light

Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.186, Courier Corporation