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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.
Lysander Spooner
Born: January 19, 1808
Died: May 14, 1887 (aged 79)
Bio: Lysander Spooner was an American individualist anarchist, political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian Christian abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, legal theorist, and entrepreneur of the nineteenth century.
Known for:
- No Treason (1867)
- The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1845)
- An essay on the trial by jury (1852)
- Vices Are Not Crimes
- The Lysander Spooner Reader
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