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In few kinds of work are the results so directly dependent on the personality of the worker as they are in excavating. The old saying that a man finds what he looks for in a subject, is too true; or if he has not enough insight to ensure finding what he looks for, it is at least sadly true that he does not find anything that he does not look for.

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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

Flinders Petrie

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Born: June 3, 1853
Died: July 28, 1942 (aged 89)
Bio: Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS, FBA, commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts.
Known for:
  1. The Pyramids And Temples Of Gizeh (1883)
  2. The Religion of Ancient Egypt (1895)
  3. Seventy years in archaeology (1931)
  4. The Arts & Crafts of Ancient Egypt (1909)
  5. Scarabs and cylinders with names (1917)

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