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One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.

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It is often easy to write history, but it is always more difficult to learn anything from the history after it is written.

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Generally speaking it is better, where possible in natural science, to study objects of research independently of the accidents of their historical development.

Walther Nernst

Walther Nernst

Walther Nernst

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Born: June 25, 1864

Died: November 18, 1941 (aged 77)

Bio: Walther Hermann Nernst was a German chemist who is known for his theories behind the calculation of chemical affinity as embodied in the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

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