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Many people... go through life with hardly an original thought; gravitate from one pleasure or amusement to another; gain a livelihood doing what someone else has assigned; flee boredom as best they can; marry and beget children; and then, without having made the slightest difference of any unique significance, die and decay like any animal.

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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

Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor

Born: November 5, 1919
Died: October 30, 2003 (aged 83)
Bio: Richard Taylor, born in Charlotte, Michigan, was an American philosopher renowned for his dry wit and his contributions to metaphysics. He was also an internationally known beekeeper.
Known for:
  1. The joys of beekeeping (1974)
  2. Restoring Pride: The Lost Virtue of Our Age (1996)
  3. Ethics, faith, and reason (1985)

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