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
Claude Bernard quotes about
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing,
Science rejects the indeterminate.
The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.