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If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Age: 57 †
Born: 1772
Born: January 1
Died: 1829
Died: January 11
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