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Claude Bernard was a French physiologist born on July 12, 1813, and died on February 10, 1878. He made significant contributions to the field of physiology, particularly in the study of the digestive system and the nervous system.

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“The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.”

Should Believe Belief Should Have Robust Investigators

Author:Claude Bernard

“The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.”

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Book:Experimental Medicine

Source: Experimental Medicine

“We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.”

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Author:Claude Bernard

“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.”

Facts Torment Investigators

Author:Claude Bernard

“Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery which is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.”

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Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

About the Author

Born: July 12, 1813
Died: February 10, 1878
Known for: Physiologist
Quotes: 86

Books & Sources

An Introduction to the Study of Experimental MedicineRelated source material

Experimental MedicineRelated source material

Claude Bernard and the internal environment: a memorial symposiumRelated source material

Lectures on the phenomena of life common to animals and plantsRelated source material

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