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What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.

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We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.

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Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

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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

Cargill Gilston Knott

Cargill Gilston Knott

Born: June 30, 1856
Died: October 26, 1922 (aged 66)
Bio: Cargill Gilston Knott was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was a pioneer in seismological research. He spent his early career in Japan.

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