Claude Bernard Quotes

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.

The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company

It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well.

One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.

The best practice is inspired by theory.

In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.

Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.

Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be done, that it is not interesting and so on.

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.