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Quotation from An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine by Claude Bernard
“The truly scientific spirit, then, should make us modest and kindly.”
An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part One, Chapter II, trans. Henry Copley Greene (1927)
After describing quarrels between physicians over rival theories, Bernard draws the moral that both are probably incomplete.
Citation: "The truly scientific spirit, then, should make us modest and kindly." — 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-q4)
Portrait: Claude Bernard 5, Unknown, Public domain.
