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Experience shows, that there is more danger in humbling ourselves too much, than ridiculousness in proclaiming our own merits.

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Modesty is a desertion of ourselves, a kind of avowal of inferiority, at which mediocrity catches greedily as a source of consolation, which it endeavors to interpret in the literal sense, and which it frequently employs as a weapon to keep at a distance the timid man of genius,

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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

Charles Bossut

Charles Bossut
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Born: August 11, 1730
Died: January 14, 1814 (aged 83)
Bio: Charles Bossut was a French mathematician and confrère of the Encyclopaedists. He was born at Tartaras, Loire, and died in Paris.

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