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Much more is learned from bits of broken pottery than from all the sensational finds. Our job is to increase the sum of human knowledge of the past, not to satisfy our curiosity.

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Method is everything in archaeology, my boy. Why, we always deal with our finds in order.

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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 Joseph Scott, 1st Baronet

Sir Joseph Scott, 1st Baronet

Born: 1752
Died: 1828 (aged 76)
Bio: Sir Joseph Scott, 1st Baronet was an English landowner and politician.

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