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A committee or an investigator considering a scheme of experiments should first... ask whether each experiment or question is framed in such a way that a definite answer can be given. The chief requirement is simplicity; only one question should be asked at a time.

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Those young people of today, who will be the leaders of thought and of action tomorrow, are faced with the problem of enduring that, in gaining control over Nature, man does not lose his own soul.

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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

E. John Russell

E. John Russell

Born: October 31, 1872
Died: 1965 (aged 92)
Bio: Sir Edward John Russell OBE FRS was a British agriculturalist and director of Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1912 to 1943.
Known for:
  1. The World of the Soil (1957)

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