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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.
R. D. Laing
Born: October 7, 1927
Died: August 23, 1989 (aged 61)
Bio: Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness in particular, the experience of psychosis.
Known for:
- The Divided Self (1960)
- Sanity and Madness in the Family (1964)
- Self and Others (1961)
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