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Claude Bernard · 1865
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What this book knows
Rigorous experimental reasoning, not vitalism or theory-worship, is the only path to genuine medical knowledge.
faith-and-doubt
Vitalistic ideas are just a kind of medical superstition—a belief in the supernatural; confidence in absolute determinism leads, on the contrary, to real science.
ISEM-RC-080We must believe in science, i.e., in determinism; yet all general theories are false—only partial and provisional truths which are necessary steps.
ISEM-RC-051mind-and-cognition
When two physiologists quarrel, only one thing is certain: both theories are insufficient. We really know very little, and we are all fallible.
ISEM-RC-054A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory; exclusive theory prevents us from seeing new facts.
ISEM-RC-053The guiding idea of an experiment should include everything already known, directing search toward problems whose solution may be fruitful in advancing science.
ISEM-RC-037work-as-meaning
We reach fruitful generalizations only in so far as we ourselves experiment and stir the fetid or throbbing ground of life.
ISEM-RC-032Illuminates
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