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The Diamond, true king of gems, not content with its own inimitable purity, takes a pleasure, as it were, to assume in turns the proper colours of its subject-classes, and again to surpass each one in its own peculiar excellence.

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These works of Nature [gemstones], by their beauty and the wonderful symmetry of their primary forms, have from the very dawn of science aroused the speculations of inquiring minds, which discovered in them the special manifestation of the creative energy of some higher power.

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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 William King

Charles William King

Born: September 5, 1818
Died: March 25, 1888 (aged 69)
Bio: Charles William King was a British Victorian writer and collector of gems.
Known for:
  1. Antique Gems and Rings (1872)
  2. Handbook of Engraved Gems (1866)
  3. Plutarch's Morals (1870)

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