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.
Alexander H. Stephens
Born: February 11, 1812
Died: March 4, 1883 (aged 71)
Bio: Alexander Hamilton Stephens was an American lawyer and politician from Georgia, and the Confederate vice president throughout the American Civil War.
Known for:
- Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens