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The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

~Claude Bernard

Topics: Believe Faith Investigator Robust Should

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The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

~Claude Bernard

Topics: Does Finds He Know Looking Understand Who Will

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The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

~Claude Bernard

Topics: Also Consists Did Experiment He His Only Pursuing Seek Seeks True Worth

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It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

~Claude Bernard

Topics: Know Learning Often Prevents Us

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Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

~Claude Bernard

Topics: Except Going Known Learn Man Nothing Unknown

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Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

~Claude Bernard

Topics: Active Experimentation Observation Passive Science

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Art is I; science is we.

~Claude Bernard

Topics: Art Science

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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.

~Claude Bernard

Topics: Again Enter Imagination Laboratory Leave Off Put You Your

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In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

~Claude Bernard

Topics: Causes Day Every Every Day Experimental Forever He Hidden Him His Know Like Man More More And More Objective Only Pride Primary Proving Reality Relations Results Science Teaching Things Will

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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

~Claude Bernard

Topics: Acquired Knowledge Mediocre Men Most Often

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Scientist

Born: July 12th, 1813

Died: February 10th, 1878

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