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 Russel Wallace
Born: January 8, 1823
Died: November 7, 1913 (aged 90)
Bio: Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist.
Known for:
- The geographical distribution of animals (1876)
- Darwinism (1889)
- Miracles and modern spiritualism (1875)
Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes