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There is no place where a man can occupy himself more intensively or usefully, and no place where he can hold down his job by doing so little.
Of the House of Commons

Nigel Nicolson

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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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Nigel Nicolson

Nigel Nicolson

Born: January 19, 1917
Died: September 23, 2004 (aged 87)
Bio: Nigel Nicolson was an English writer, publisher and politician.
Known for:
  1. Portrait of a Marriage (1973)
  2. The world of Jane Austen (1991)
  3. Long Life: Memoirs (1998)
  4. Virginia Woolf (2000)
  5. The Queen and us (2003)

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