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I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion

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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.
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Frank Kingdon-Ward

Frank Kingdon-Ward

Born: November 6, 1885
Died: April 8, 1958 (aged 72)
Bio: Francis Kingdon-Ward, born Francis Kingdon Ward was an English botanist, explorer, plant collector and author. He published most of his books as Frank Kingdon-Ward and this hyphenated form of his name stuck, becoming the surname of his wives and two daughters.
Known for:
  1. In the land of the blue poppies
  2. A, Plant Hunter in Tibet (1934)
  3. The land of the blue poppy (1913)
  4. Burma's Icy Mountains (1949)

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