By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.


Claude Adrien Helvetius

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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
CLAUDE BERNARD
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
CLAUDE SWANSON
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so...
CLAUDE MONET
Art is I; science is we.
CLAUDE BERNARD
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment,...
CLAUDE BERNARD
Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each f...
CLAUDE MCKAY
The first time I went to America in the mid-1960s, I was telling (everyone) I was from Montreux, Swi...
CLAUDE NOBS
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never ...
CLAUDE CHABROL
There is insufficient capacity there and there is a problem with conversion capacity.
CLAUDE MANDIL
Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each f...
CLAUDE MCKAY
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and ...
ALBERT CLAUDE
In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are...
CLAUDE NICOLLIER
Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke
CLAUDE MCDONALD
I suggest that a provision expressly state that the commission will not interfere in any way in the ...
CLAUDE JORDA
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning
CLAUDE BERNARD
Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupid...
CLAUDE CHABROL
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and...
CLAUDE MCKAY
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him...
CLAUDE BERNARD
Experimentation is an active science.
CLAUDE BERNARD
A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
CLAUDE CHABROL
The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.
CLAUDE NICOLLIER
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
CLAUDE BERNARD
Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993...
CLAUDE NICOLLIER
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the...
CLAUDE NICOLLIER
The score was a bit cruel, but that's football and we congratulate the Egypt team.
CLAUDE LEROY
Every team that comes to Chelsea , they close the game,
CLAUDE MAKELELE
Some people may have expected us to drop points at Liverpool or get beaten. We didn't do that, we wo...
CLAUDE MAKELELE
The question is not whether we play well or play badly. It's to play to win. Nobody will remember th...
CLAUDE MAKELELE
We have to win that last match, no matter how.
CLAUDE MAKELELE
On Thursday I'm going to train with all the enthusiasm in the world together with my Madrid teammate...
CLAUDE MAKELELE
It is more a case of us giving the goals away than a product of our opponents play, ... We need to o...
CLAUDE MAKELELE
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find th...
ALBERT CLAUDE
The highway administration is looking at it. This will be closely monitored. We're probably going to...
CLAUDE BERGERON