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Science is not inevitable; this question is very fruitful indeed.

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The modern scientist looks upon science as a great building erected stone by stone through the work of his predecessors and his contemporary fellow-scientists, a structure that will be continued but never completed by his successors.

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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

Edgar Zilsel

Edgar Zilsel

Born: 1891
Died: 1944 (aged 53)
Bio: Edgar Zilsel was an Austrian historian and philosopher of science. He is considered to be among the modern "pioneers of the sociology of science".

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