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One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching.

Henry B. Eyring

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Henry B. Eyring
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: May 31
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Physicist
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Princeton
New Jersey
Henry Bennion Eyring
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