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Whene'er I walk the public ways,
How many poor that lack ablution
Do probe my heart with pensive gaze,
And beg a trivial contribution!


Owen Seaman

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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

Owen Seaman

Owen Seaman

Born: September 18, 1861
Died: February 2, 1936 (aged 74)
Bio: Sir Owen Seaman, 1st Baronet was a British writer, journalist and poet. He is best known as editor of Punch, from 1906 to 1932.
Known for:
  1. War-time verses (1915)
  2. In Cap & Bells (1899)
  3. The Battle of the Bays (1896)
  4. With Double Pipe (1888)
  5. Borrowed Plumes (1902)

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