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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.
Pablo Neruda
Born: July 12, 1904
Died: September 23, 1973 (aged 69)
Bio: Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. He derived his pen name from the Czech poet Jan Neruda. Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
Known for:
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924)
- The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
- Cien Sonetos de Amor (1959)
- The essential Neruda
- Canto General (1950)
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