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I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict or agree with the opinions of each individual who may read them; but their worth will be best determined by the foundation on which they rest—the incontrovertible facts.

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Truth, like beauty, when "unadorned, is adorned the most"; and in prosecuting these experiments and inquiries, I believe I have been guided by its light.

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The process of developing truth by patient and persevering investigation, experiment, and research, is incompatible with their notions of unrestrained genius. The drudgery of science they leave to humbler and more unpretending contributors. The flight of genius is, however, frequently erratic.

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Facts are more persuasive than arguments, however ingeniously made, and by their eloquence...

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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

William Beaumont

William Beaumont
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Born: November 21, 1785
Died: April 25, 1853 (aged 67)
Bio: William Beaumont was a surgeon in the U.S. Army who became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology" following his research on human digestion.

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