"True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain."

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Source : Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. VII

Claude Bernard

#Ignorance Quotes #Science Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“Remember, someone, somewhere in some corner of this somewhat big world, is out there crying if you're unhappy and is happy if you are! And you know who that someone is!”
“Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself.”
“[Adolf] Hitler had a very strong adolescent side to him, emotionally he was like a boy in certain things, like film stars and gossip.”
“For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.”
“He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.”
“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”
“A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul.”
“The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.”

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