Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill-prepared for making discoveries they also make poor observations.
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The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.Claude Bernard
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from winch the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
Claude Bernard
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
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
Claude Bernard
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.
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