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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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“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.”

Men Believe Enough Science Theory Fellows Experiments

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

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

Firsts Facts Science Treated Statistics Units Requirements

Author:Claude Bernard

“In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.”

Science Found Causes Teach Taught Succeed Patient Determine Statistics Phenomenon

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.”

Doe Stills Science Given Causes Conditions Proof Certainty Phenomenon Accompany Warrants Concluding

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.”

Mind Stills Self Science Strive Satisfied Really Great

Book:Experimental Medicine

Source: Experimental Medicine

“When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.”

Ideas Science Research Modesty Mistaken Entering False Modesty

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.”

Men May Real Science Progress Creation Limits Gains Active Aids Inventor Experimental Science Future Progress

Book:Experimental Medicine

Source: Experimental Medicine

About the Author

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

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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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