Quote of the day
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.
A. W. F. Edwards
Born: October 4, 1935 (age 89)
Bio: Anthony William Fairbank Edwards is a British statistician, geneticist, and evolutionary biologist, sometimes called "Fisher's Edwards" because he was mentored by Ronald Fisher.
Known for:
- Cogwheels of the Mind (2004)
- Pascal's arithmetical triangle (1987)
- Foundations of mathematical genetics (1977)
- Nashville Interiors, 1866 to 1922 (1999)
- Likelihood (1972)