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The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
Claude Bernard
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Claude Bernard
Age: 64 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 12
Died: 1878
Died: February 10
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In these researches I followed the principles of the experimental method that we have established, i.e., that, in presence of a well-noted, new fact which contradicts a theory, instead of keeping the theory and abandoning the fact, I should keep and study the fact, and I hastened to give up the theory.
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If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my opinion, sharply differentiates biological science. I should say: life is creation.
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Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
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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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Science admits no exceptions otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.
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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
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