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No honest historian can take part with — or against — the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should be merely a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

Ernest Samuels

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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

Ernest Samuels

Ernest Samuels

Born: May 19, 1903
Died: February 12, 1996 (aged 92)
Bio: Ernest Samuels was an American biographer and lawyer.
Known for:
  1. Bernard Berenson, the making of a legend (1979)
  2. Henry Adams (1964)
  3. The young Henry Adams (1948)
  4. Henry Adams: The Major Phase (1964)
  5. Henry Adams: The Middle Years (1958)

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