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Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.

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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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Horace Fletcher

Horace Fletcher

Born: 1849
Died: July 14, 1919 (aged 70)
Bio: Horace Fletcher was an American health food enthusiast of the Victorian era who earned the nickname "The Great Masticator", by arguing that food should be chewed about 100 times per minute before being swallowed: "Nature will castigate those who don't masticate".
Known for:
  1. Fletcherism, what it is (1913)
  2. The new glutton or epicure (1903)
  3. Menticulture (1895)
  4. A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition (1903)

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