Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is a…

Claude Bernard
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Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in relation to its material conditions, that is, when its law is known. Before that, we have only groping and empiricism. ✨ Claude Bernard Experimental Medicine, Transaction Publishers
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