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Science rejects the indeterminate.

Claude Bernard

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Claude Bernard
Age: 64 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 12
Died: 1878
Died: February 10
Physician Writer
Physiologist
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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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