“Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by observation. So he reasons, compares facts, puts questions to them, and by the answers which he extracts, tests one by another. This sort of control, by means of reasoning and facts, is what constitutes experiment, properly speaking; and it is the only process that we have for teaching ourselves about the nature of things outside us.” ThinkingMenMeanDoeHas BeensReasonFactsScienceProcessAnswersExistenceSeeingTeachingLimitsTestsExperimentsObservationCompareReasoning Author:Claude Bernard
“Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.” MeanScienceWonderfulMachinesPropertyComplexesMechanismDelicateOrganismsMarvellousLiving OrganismsBiochemistry Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
“The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material in the living hepatic tissue. The second entirely chemical action, which can be effected outside the influence of life, consists in the transformation of the glycogenic material into sugar by means of a ferment.” FirstsMeanActionInfluenceCreationMaterialsTransformationChemicalsSugarTissuesBiochemistry Author:Claude Bernard
“In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but the true sanctuary of medical science is a laboratory; only there can he seek explanations of life in the normal and pathological states by means of experimental analysis.” LifeFirstsMeanStatesScienceFieldsNormalMedicineMedicalObservationAnalysisExplanationHospitalsPhysiciansLaboratorySanctuaryEntrancesMedical Science Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
“It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means that it is better to know nothing than to keep in mind fixed ideas based on theories whose confirmation we constantly seek, neglecting meanwhile everything that fails to agree with them.” KnowsMindMeanSaidIdeasScienceOpinionKnowledgeFailingTheoryDiscoveryAgreeIgnorantFixedAgreementNeglectNeverthelessMistakenConfirmation Author:Claude Bernard
