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.
Alfred L. Kroeber
Born: June 11, 1876
Died: October 5, 1960 (aged 84)
Bio: Alfred Louis Kroeber was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his Ph.D. under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia.
Known for:
- Handbook of the Indians of California (1925)
- The Arapaho (1902)
- Indian Myths of South Central California (1907)
- Decorative Symbolism of the Arapaho (1901)