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Every sentient being, from the first dawn of intelligence, recognises the existence of mind and matter; of an inner and an outer world ; or, to adopt the quaint phraseology of the past, a microcosm and a macrocosm.

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To ordinary minds all creation is mystery; to cultivated minds there is much that is not quite inexplicable.

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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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Henry Dircks

Henry Dircks

Born: August 26, 1806
Died: September 17, 1873 (aged 67)
Bio: Henry Dircks FRSE FCS was an English engineer who is considered to have been the main designer of the projection technique known as Pepper's ghost in 1858. It is named after John Henry Pepper who implemented a working version of the device in 1862.

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