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Upon this point, a page of history is worth a volume of logic.

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I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

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Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

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The chief end of man is to frame general ideas—and…no general idea is worth a damn.

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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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Born: March 8, 1841
Died: March 6, 1935 (aged 93)
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