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The history of science shows that great discoveries are made by means of imaginative insight, but it also teaches that mere imagination without dependence upon known facts is frequently a source of much mischief.

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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.
Werner Heisenberg

James Edwin Creighton

James Edwin Creighton

Born: April 8, 1861
Died: October 8, 1924 (aged 63)
Bio: James Edwin Creighton, was an American philosopher who believed no system of thought can be the product of an isolated mind.
Known for:
  1. An Introductory Logic (1898)
  2. The Will, Its Structure and Mode of Action (1898)

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