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If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

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One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

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Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.

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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

Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth
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Born: May 12, 1880
Died: May 26, 1951 (aged 71)
Bio: Lincoln Ellsworth was a polar explorer from the United States and a major benefactor of the American Museum of Natural History.

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