Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
More Quotes from 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
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
Claude Bernard
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill-prepared for making discoveries they also make poor observations.
Claude Bernard
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.
Claude Bernard
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
Claude Bernard
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from winch the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
Claude Bernard
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