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I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.

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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

Lionel Abel

Lionel Abel

Born: November 19, 1910
Died: April 19, 2001 (aged 90)
Bio: Lionel Abel was an eminent Jewish American playwright, essayist and theater critic. He was also a translator, and was an authorized translator of Jean-Paul Sartre, who called Abel the most intelligent man in New York City.
Known for:
  1. Metatheatre (1963)
  2. Tragedy and metatheatre
  3. The intellectual follies (1984)
  4. Important nonsense (1987)

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