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There is no fixed road to wealth, and goods do not stay with the same master forever.

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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

Sima Qian

Sima Qian
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Born: 145 BC
Died: 86 BC (aged 59)
Bio: Sima Qian, formerly romanized Ssu-ma Chien, was a Chinese historian of the Han dynasty.
Known for:
  1. Records of the Grand Historian (91 BC)
  2. The grand scribe's records
  3. Les mémoires historiques de Se-ma-Tsʼien
  4. Selections from Records of the Historian

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