"First causes are outside the realm of science."

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Source : An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (p. 66)

Claude Bernard

#Science Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Causes Quotes

“...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate - with quite elaborate behaviours = for the sudden half-disappearance of the person we were just speaking to. 'Go ahead!' we say. 'Don't mind us! Oh look, here's a magazine I can read!' When the call is over, other rituals come into play, to minimise the disruption caused and to restore good feeling.”
“As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.”
“Forget yourself and go to work.”
“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.”
“It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.”
“I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.”

Source : "Go ask Alise". Interview with Newyorker, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2001.
“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.”

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