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.
Albert Defant

Born: July 12, 1884
Died: December 24, 1974 (aged 90)
Bio: Albert Joseph Maria Defant was an Austrian meteorologist and oceanographer. He published fundamental works on the physics of the atmosphere and ocean and is regarded as one of the founders of physical oceanography.