94 Quotes by Claude Bernard

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.