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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.
William Cullen Bryant
Born: November 3, 1794
Died: June 12, 1878 (aged 83)
Bio: William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.
Known for:
- Thanatopsis
- Poems, by William Cullen Bryant (1849)
- Picturesque America
- A Forest Hymn (1824)
- The poetical works of William Cullen Bryant (1853)
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