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.
Adoniram Judson
Born: August 9, 1788
Died: April 12, 1850 (aged 61)
Bio: Adoniram Judson, Jr. was an American Congregationalist and later Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Adoniram Judson became the first Caucasian Protestant missionary sent from North America to preach in Burma.
Known for:
- English and Burmese Dictionary (1849)
- Grammatical notices of the Burmese language (1842)
- The Judson Burmese-English dictionary