Claude Bernard Quotes

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

One can not impede scientific progress.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do.

Light itself is a revelation.

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.

Truths kindle light for truths.

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.

Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing.

It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.