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There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.

Alexander Meiklejohn

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Alexander Meiklejohn

Alexander Meiklejohn

Born: February 1, 1872
Died: December 17, 1964 (aged 92)
Bio: Alexander Meiklejohn was a philosopher, university administrator, educational reformer, and free-speech advocate. He served as dean of Brown University and president of Amherst College.
Known for:
  1. The Experimental College (1928)
  2. Education between two worlds (1942)
  3. The liberal college (1920)
  4. What does America mean? (1935)

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