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.
Albery Allson Whitman

Born: 1851
Died: 1901 (aged 50)
Bio: Albery Allson Whitman was an African American poet, minister and orator. Born into slavery, Whitman created a successful career for himself as a writer, and during his lifetime was acclaimed as the Poet Laureate of the Negro Race.
Known for:
- Not a man, and yet a man (1877)
- An idyl of the South (1901)
- Twasinta's Seminoles
- Twasinta's Seminoles: Or, Rape of Florida (1885)