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Why should we limit by dogma or otherwise man's liberty to select his food and drink?...[T]he great practical rule of life in regard of human diet will not be found in enforcing limitation of the sources of food which Nature has abundantly provided.

Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet

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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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Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet

Born: August 6, 1820
Died: April 18, 1904 (aged 83)
Bio: Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet was a British surgeon and polymath.
Known for:
  1. Food and Feeding (1879)

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