Claude Bernard - Mind Quotes

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The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.

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The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from winch the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.

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We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.

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It seems, indeed, a necessary weakness of our mind to be able to reach truth only across a multitude of errors and obstacles.

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In my opinion the true scientific spirit is that whose high aspiration fertilize the sciences and draw them on in search of truths which are still beyond them but which must not be suppressed, because they have been attacked by stronger and more delicate philosophic minds.

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I believe, in a word, that the true scientific method confines the mind without suffocating it, leaves it as far as possible face to face with itself, and guides it, while respecting the creative originality and the spontaneity which are its most precious qualities.

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We must keep our freedom of mind,... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

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The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

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The nature of our mind leads us to seek the essence or the why of things.

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The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

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It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means that it is better to know nothing than to keep in mind fixed ideas based on theories whose confirmation we constantly seek, neglecting meanwhile everything that fails to agree with them.

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