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Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it would be with much difficulty, very heavily and tediously.

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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

John Horne Tooke

John Horne Tooke

Born: June 25, 1736
Died: March 18, 1812 (aged 75)
Bio: John Horne Tooke was an English clergyman, politician, and philologist.

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