Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown…

Claude Bernard
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. ✨ Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Volume IV, 1928.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. ✨ Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Volume IV, 1928.

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