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As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the cause of the phenomena is accurately defined. Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined,Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined, can we compile statistics. ... we must learn therefore that we compile statistics only when we cannot possibly help it; for in my opinion, statistics can never yield scientific truth.

Claude Bernard's Popular Quotes

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

- Claude Bernard

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

- Claude Bernard

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

- Claude Bernard

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great…

- Claude Bernard

Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

- Claude Bernard

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

- Claude Bernard

Feeling alone guides the mind.

- Claude Bernard

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

- Claude Bernard

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

- Claude Bernard