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 Rupert Hall

Born: July 26, 1920
Died: February 5, 2009 (aged 88)
Bio: Alfred Rupert Hall was a prominent British historian of science, known as editor of a collection of Isaac Newton's unpublished scientific papers, and Newton's correspondence, in 1977.
Known for:
- Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought (1992)
- From Galileo to Newton, 1630-1720 (1962)
- The Revolution in Science 1500 - 1750 (1983)