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.
Aleš Hrdlička
Born: March 29, 1869
Died: September 5, 1943 (aged 74)
Bio: Aleš Hrdlička was a Czech anthropologist who lived in the United States after his family had moved there in 1881. He was born in Humpolec, Bohemia and given a baptismal name "Alois", which he later changed into a more patriotic form "Aleš".