“It is better to know nothing,” wrote Claude Bernard in An Introduction to the Study of Experimental… — Gary Taubes
“It is better to know nothing,” wrote Claude Bernard in An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, “than to keep in mind fixed ideas based on theories whose confirmation we constantly seek, neglecting meanwhile everything that fails to agree with them.”
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Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations.
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Skepticism, however, cannot be removed from the scientific process. Science does not function without it.
A colleague once defined an academic discipline as a group of scholars who had agreed not to ask certain embarrassing questions about key assumptions.
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