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There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or fail to do it.

Mary Lyon

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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.
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Born: February 28, 1797
Died: March 5, 1849 (aged 52)
Bio: Mary Mason Lyon was an American pioneer in women's education. She established the Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, in 1834.

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