When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, … - Claude Bernard

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When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

Claude Bernard

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Claude Bernard (July 12, 1813 – February 10, 1878) was a French physiologist.

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Considered in itself, the experimental method is nothing but reasoning by whose help we methodically submit our ideas to experience,—the experience of facts.

Science does not permit exceptions.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

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