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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.
François Rabelais
Born: 1494
Died: April 19, 1553 (aged 59)
Bio: François Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs.
Known for:
- Le Quart Livre (1552)
- The third book of Pantagruel (1546)
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
- The complete works of François Rabelais
- The Works Of Rabelais
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