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The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

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Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

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Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.

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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: September 10, 1859
Died: November 1, 1942 (aged 83)
Bio: Prof John Norman Collie commonly referred to as J. Norman Collie was a British scientist, mountaineer and explorer.
Known for:
  1. From the Himalaya to Skye
  2. CLIMBING ON THE HIMALAYA & OTH

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