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History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

Johann Gustav Droysen

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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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Johann Gustav Droysen

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Born: July 6, 1808
Died: June 19, 1884 (aged 75)
Bio: Johann Gustav Droysen was a German historian. His history of Alexander the Great was the first work representing a new school of German historical thought that idealized power held by so-called "great" men.

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