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Every enlargement of the field of knowledge has resulted in the enrichment of the academic curriculum. Great is the difference, moreover, between knowledge as knowledge and knowledge as a tool of intellectual training. Time is required for the transmutation of pure science into a practical agency or condition of discipline.

Charles Franklin Thwing

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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.
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Charles Franklin Thwing

Charles Franklin Thwing
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Born: November 9, 1853
Died: August 29, 1937 (aged 83)
Bio: Rev. Charles Franklin Thwing was an American clergyman and educator.
Known for:
  1. American Colleges: Their Students and Work (1878)
  2. The college president (1926)
  3. Education in the Far East (1909)
  4. History of higher education in America (1906)

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