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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.
Novalis
Born: May 2, 1772
Died: March 25, 1801 (aged 28)
Bio: Novalis was the pseudonym and pen name of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, a poet, author, mystic, and philosopher of Early German Romanticism.
Known for:
- Hymner til natten (1800)
- Novalis: Philosophical Writings
- The Novices of Sais
- Henry Von Ofterdingen: A Novel
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