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In our time it has become all too easy to regard science as a vast impersonal force — a kind of Frankenstein's monster that, escaping human control, has forcibly seized us and carries us at terrifying speeds in directions we have not chosen towards ends unknown.

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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

Kenneth S. Davis

Kenneth S. Davis

Born: September 29, 1912
Died: June 10, 1999 (aged 86)
Bio: Kenneth Sydney Davis was a historian and university professor, most renowned for his series of biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Davis also wrote biographies of Charles Lindbergh, Adlai Stevenson, and authored the first biography of General Dwight D.
Known for:
  1. FDR, the New Deal years, 1933-1937 (1972)
  2. FDR: The War President, 1940-1943
  3. FDR: The New York Years (1985)
  4. FDR, into the storm, 1937-1940 (1993)
  5. Soldier of democracy (1945)

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