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Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.

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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 R. Schlesinger

James R. Schlesinger
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Born: February 15, 1929
Died: March 27, 2014 (aged 85)
Bio: James Rodney Schlesinger was an American economist and public servant who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He became America's first Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter.

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