Quote #16
If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.
More from Claude Bernard
- Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
- A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.
- True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance.
- Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
- A great surgeon performs operations for stone by a single method; later he makes a statistical summary of deaths and recoveries, and he con…
- We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
- Indeed, proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given co…
- Theories are only verified hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even the…