„Schade, dass es vorbei ist.“
zitiert in Fernando Namora: "Götter und Dämonen der Medizin", edition q, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86124-553-1, S. 153
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Claude Bernard
Geburtstag: 12. Juli 1813
Todesdatum: 10. Februar 1878
Claude Bernard war ein französischer Arzt und Physiologe.
Er entdeckte die Rolle der Pankreassekretion bei der Verdauung von Fetten, die Rolle der Leber bei der inneren Sekretion von Glukose im Blut, womit man der Ursache der Zuckerkrankheit auf die Spur kam. Er zeigte auch auf, wie Kohlenstoffmonoxid die Atmung blockiert.
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„When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.“
Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)
„The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.“
Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)
„A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.“
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)
„Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.“
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)
„Science does not permit exceptions.“
Lessons of Experimental Pathology (1855-1856)
„Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.“
Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)
„We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.“
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)
„Theories are only verified hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.“
Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)
„Indeed, proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.“
Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)
„Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness…. A man of science rises ever, in seeking truth; and if he never finds it in its wholeness, he discovers nevertheless very significant fragments; and these fragments of universal truth are precisely what constitutes science.“
Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)
„The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.“
Leçons sur les Phénomènes de la Vie Communs aux Animaux et aux Végétaux (1878-1879).
„Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.“
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)
„All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.“
Leçons sur les Phénomènes de la Vie Communs aux Animaux et aux Végétaux.
„True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance.“
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)
„They make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward the idea they wish to combat.“
Introduction à l'Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865)
„Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.“
Leçons de Pathologie Expérimentale (1872).
