"Eine empirische Naturforschung in dem gewöhnlichen Sinn existirt gar nicht. Ein Experiment, dem nicht eine Theorie, d. h. eine Idee, vorhergeht, verhält sich zur Naturforschung wie das Rasseln mit einer Kinderklapper zur Musik."
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Justus von Liebig, Ueber Francis Bacon von Verulam und die Methode der Naturforschung, Cotta, München 1863, S. 49,
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