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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.
Theophrastus
Born: 371 BC
Died: 287 BC (aged 84)
Bio: Theophrastus, a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He came to Athens at a young age and initially studied in Plato's school. After Plato's death, he attached himself to Aristotle.
Known for:
- Historia Plantarum
- The characters of Theophrastus
- Theophrastus on stones
- Characters
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