Claude Bernard Quotes

It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.

The real prize is finding something new out there.

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

Science is always inquiring.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.

Science is facts.

There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. It's worth everything.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

Science is about unravelling nature.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

Science is not gadgetry.

Scientist

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is.