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The day of the jewelled epigram is past and, whether one likes it or not, one is moving into the stern puritanical era of the four-letter word.

Noel Annan, Baron Annan

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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

Noel Annan, Baron Annan

Noel Annan, Baron Annan

Born: December 25, 1916
Died: February 21, 2000 (aged 83)
Bio: Noel Gilroy Annan, Baron Annan was a British military intelligence officer, author, and academic. During his military career, he rose to the rank of colonel and was appointed to the Order of the British Empire as an Officer.
Known for:
  1. Our age (1990)
  2. The Dons (1999)
  3. Changing Enemies (1995)
  4. Leslie Stephen (1951)
  5. The First and the Last

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