Quote #19
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
More from Claude Bernard
- Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
- A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.
- If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.
- Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
- True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance.
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