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Quotes from Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV — Claude Bernard

1813–1878 France

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

Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.

Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance.

Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

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

Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.

Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)

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