Claude Bernard Quotes

"Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge."
- Claude Bernard
(Related: Men, Knowledge)

"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science."
- Claude Bernard
(Related: Science, Observation)

"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
(Related: Imagination)

"Science does not permit exceptions."
- Claude Bernard
(Related: Science)

"The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe."
- Claude Bernard
(Related: Faith)

"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
(Related: Science, Causes, Day, Man, Pride, Reality, Results, Teaching, Will)

"Art is I; science is we."
- Claude Bernard
(Related: Art, Science)

"Experimentation is an active science."
- Claude Bernard
(Related: Science)

"The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds."
- Claude Bernard
(Related: Will)

"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning."
- Claude Bernard
(Related: Learning)

"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
- Claude Bernard
(Related: Man, Nothing)

"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
(Related: Idea, Fact, Nothing, Proof)