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It is an observation which all the world can verify, that there is nothing so deplorable as the conduct of some celebrated mathematicians in their own affairs, nor anything so absurd as their opinions on the sciences not within their jurisdiction.

Kenelm Digby

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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

Kenelm Digby

Kenelm Digby

Born: July 11, 1603
Died: June 11, 1665 (aged 61)
Bio: Sir Kenelm Digby was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, and known as a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist.
Known for:
  1. The Temple of Memory
  2. Maxims of Christian Chivalry
  3. Journal of a Voyage Into the Mediterranean

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