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Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.

Francis Lieber

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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

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Francis Lieber
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Born: March 18, 1798
Died: October 2, 1872 (aged 74)
Bio: Francis Lieber, known as Franz Lieber in Germany, was a German-American jurist, gymnast and political philosopher. He edited an Encyclopaedia Americana.
Known for:
  1. Encyclopedia Americana (1829)
  2. Legal and Political Hermeneutics (1839)
  3. Civil liberty and self-government

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