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“A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at once. We must content ourselves with tracking it down, enveloped in considerable darkness, which leads us to make new mistakes and errors. By diligent examination, we may at length little by little peel off the thickest layers, but we seldom get the core quite free, so that finally we have to be satisfied with a little incomplete knowledge.”

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Torbern Bergman

Torbern Bergman, born on March 20, 1735, and died on July 8, 1784, was a prominent Swedish chemist. He made significant contributions to the development of chemical experimental methods. more

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