Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernardwas a French physiologist. Historian Ierome Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science". Among many other accomplishments, he was one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations. He originated the term milieu intérieur, and the associated concept of homeostasis...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth12 July 1813
CityRhone, France
CountryFrance
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
Science does not permit exceptions.
In these researches I followed the principles of the experimental method that we have established, i.e., that, in presence of a well-noted, new fact which contradicts a theory, instead of keeping the theory and abandoning the fact, I should keep and study the fact, and I hastened to give up the theory.
We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.