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Claude Bernard

12 July 1813-10 February 1878

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Discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory, for otherwise it would be foreseen.

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The Fact is, in itself nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

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Learning is often an obstacle. It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

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Science's passive construction is observation and active construction is experimentation.

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Science is a humbling lesson in the failure of metaphysics, for it proves to the scientists every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.