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I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last three years.... I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.

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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 Van Doren

Charles Van Doren
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Born: February 12, 1926
Died: April 9, 2019 (aged 93)
Bio: Charles Lincoln Van Doren was an American intellectual, writer, and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s.

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