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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.
Howard Zinn
Born: August 24, 1922
Died: January 27, 2010 (aged 87)
Bio: Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than twenty books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States.
Known for:
- A People's History of the United States (1980)
- You can't be neutral on a moving train (1994)
- A People's History of American Empire (2008)
- Marx in Soho (1999)
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