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 BernardRead
Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
Interpretation
One must experience hardship and uncertainty to truly appreciate the joy of finding new knowledge.
This quote by Claude Bernard implies that the challenges and fears associated with the unknown are essential for experiencing the profound joy that comes with discovery. It suggests that without confronting the discomfort of uncertainty, one cannot fully value the satisfaction that arises from uncovering new truths or ideas. The essence of learning and growth stems from navigating through the chaos and confusion that comes with exploration.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming fears and embracing challenges.
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.
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know the evolution of the disease, its duration and gravity in order to predict its course and outcome. Here statistics intervene to guide physicians, by teaching them the proportion of mortal cases, and if observation has also shown that the successful and unsuccessful cases can be recognized by certain signs, then the prognosis is more certain.
The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.
Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.
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.
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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