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When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

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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

R. C. Sherriff

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Born: June 6, 1896
Died: November 13, 1975 (aged 79)
Bio: Robert Cedric Sherriff was an English writer best known for his play Journey's End, which was based on his experiences as a captain in World War I. He wrote several plays, novels, and screenplays, and was nominated for an Academy award and two BAFTA awards.
Known for:
  1. Journey's End (1930)
  2. The fortnight in September (1931)
  3. The Hopkins Manuscript (1939)
  4. The White Carnation (1953)
  5. Greengates (1936)

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