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Quotation from An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine by Claude Bernard
“all such theories are false. They are only partial and provisional truths which are necessary to us, as steps on which we rest, so as to go on with investigation”
An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part One, Chapter II, trans. Henry Copley Greene (1927)
Bernard explains that a general theory in biology or medicine is always a stage in research, never a final truth.
Citation: "all such theories are false. They are only partial and provisional truths which are necessary to us, as steps on which we rest, so as to go on with investigation" — Claude Bernard, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part One, Chapter II, trans. Henry Copley Greene (1927). (id bernard-introduction-to-experimental-medicine-q3)
Portrait: Claude Bernard 5, Unknown, Public domain.
