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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
Claude Bernard
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Claude Bernard
Age: 64 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 12
Died: 1878
Died: February 10
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Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
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Il ne fallait jamais faire des expériences pour confirmer ses idées, mais simplement pour les contrôler. We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
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Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.
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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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