Claude Bernard.

  • Foster, Michael, Sir.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Claude Bernard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which makes him and the poet brothers. His must be a sensitive soul, ready to vibrate to Nature's touches. Before the dull eye of the ordinary mind facts pass one after the other in long procession, but pass without effect, awakening nothing. In the eye of a man of genius, be he poet or man of science, the same facts light up an illumination, in the one of beauty, in the other of truth; each possesses a responsive imagination. Such had Bernard, and the responses which in his youth found expres- sion in verses, in his maturer and trained mind took on the form of scientific hypo- theses. An hypothesis may be good or may be bad, may be fruitful or may be barren. This may, on the one hand, depend on the very nature of the hypothesis, which may, even at the outset, in its very origin, be worthless and wrong. On the other