Claude Bernard Quotes

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

The wonderful thing about science is that in science, faith is shakable.

Scientific method isn't about winning popularity contests. It's also not about being with the majority opinion. It isn't supposed be determined by politics. It is about attempting to limit bias or prejudice in the results