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.
Alain-René Lesage
Born: May 6, 1668
Died: November 17, 1747 (aged 79)
Bio: Alain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks, his comedy Turcaret, and his picaresque novel Gil Blas.
Known for:
- Gil Blas (1715)
- Turcaret
- The devil on two sticks
- The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane