To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must … - Claude Bernard

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

In order to take our lives to the next level, we must realize that the same pattern of thinking that has gotten us to where we are now will not get us to where we want to go.

Claude Bernard

To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art of establishing experimental facts, which are the materials of science, he must also clearly understand the scientific principles which guide his reasoning through the varied experimental study of natural phenomena. We cannot separate these two things: head and hand. An able hand, without a head to direct it, is a blind tool; the head is powerless without its executive hand.

Art, Establishing, Experimental, Names, Science, Understand

Same Author Quotes

A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. '

Art, Contemporary, Impersonality, Personality, Science

We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

Achieve, Achievement, Know, Knowledge, Science, Understand

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.

Glycogenic, Hepatic, Material, Mean, Sugar, Tissues

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.

Machine, Machines, Marvellous, Mean, Science, Wonderful

Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by pursuing chimerical problems and theories which are false. In physical science, which is more advanced than biology, we might still cite men of science who make great discoveries by relying on false theories. It seems, indeed, a necessary weakness of our mind to be able to reach truth only across a multitude of errors and obstacles.

Men, Mistake, Problems, Pursuing, Science, Truth