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Garrett P. Serviss - A Columbus of Space (1894)

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His imagination flashed like lightning over the subject of his talk, revealing it at the most unexpected angles, and often he roused us to real enthusiasm for things the very names of which we almost forgot amidst the next day's occupations.

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Here we were, out in the middle of space; and there was the earth, hanging on nothing, like a summer cloud.

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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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Garrett P. Serviss

Garrett P. Serviss
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Born: March 24, 1851
Died: May 25, 1929 (aged 78)
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