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Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

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Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.

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The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

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When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

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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

Edwin Paxton Hood

Edwin Paxton Hood

Born: 1820
Died: June 12, 1885 (aged 65)
Bio: Edwin Paxton Hood was an English nonconformist and author.
Known for:
  1. The Age And Its Architects
  2. Lamps, Pitchers And Trumpets (1867)
  3. Robert Hall (1881)

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