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Quotation from An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine by Claude Bernard
“If a comparison were required to express my idea of the science of life, I should say that it is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.”
An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part One, Chapter I, trans. Henry Copley Greene (1927)
Bernard's image for the gap between the splendour of physiological knowledge and the labour and unpleasantness of the laboratory that produces it.
Citation: "If a comparison were required to express my idea of the science of life, I should say that it is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen." — Claude Bernard, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part One, Chapter I, trans. Henry Copley Greene (1927). (id bernard-introduction-to-experimental-medicine-q1)
Portrait: Claude Bernard 5, Unknown, Public domain.
