Claude Bernard Quotes

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Science is about filling in the details.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.

It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer turns out to be exactly what you expected, then you have learned nothing new, although you may have had your confidence increased somewhat.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.

Research is creating new knowledge.

I just like to experiment.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.