Claude Bernard Quote

If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.


An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865), trans. Henry Copley Green (1957)


If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion,...

If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion,...

If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion,...

If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion,...