Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard was a French physiologist. I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science".
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Trending topics shown first"The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen."
"All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment."
"The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion."
"Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science."
"Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown."
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Birth1878
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