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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.
Daniel Defoe
Born: 1660
Died: April 24, 1731 (aged 71)
Bio: Daniel Defoe, born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe.
Known for:
- Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- Moll Flanders (1722)
- A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
- The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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