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The teachers in general and hence their students know little if anything about the actual individuals whose work they discuss; science teachers especially are guilty of this neglect.

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Some years ago when I announced a lecture under the title "The Human Side of Scientists" some of the students asked in all seriousness: "Do they have a human side?" Of course they do, even though the average course includes little or nothing about the personal side of the men and women responsible for the birth and development of the various areas of science.

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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.
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Ralph Edward Oesper

Ralph Edward Oesper

Born: June 14, 1886
Died: December 10, 1977 (aged 91)
Bio: Ralph Edward Oesper was a prolific writer, publishing more than 300 papers in the fields of analytical and organic chemistry and especially in the history of chemistry.


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