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People today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself.

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People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.

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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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George Albert Wells

George Albert Wells

Born: May 22, 1926
Died: January 23, 2017 (aged 90)
Bio: George Albert Wells, usually known as G. A. Wells, was an Emeritus Professor of German at Birkbeck, University of London.
Known for:
  1. Did Jesus Exist? (1975)
  2. The historical evidence for Jesus (1982)
  3. The Jesus legend (1996)
  4. The Jesus myth (1999)
  5. Can We Trust the New Testament? (2004)

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