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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.

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Well, the English have no family feelings. That is, none of the kind you mean. They have them, and one of them is that relations must cause no expense.

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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces...

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Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

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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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Born: June 5, 1884
Died: August 27, 1969 (aged 85)
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