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.
Anna Leonowens
Born: November 5, 1831
Died: January 19, 1915 (aged 83)
Bio: Anna Harriette Leonowens was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator and social activist.
Known for:
- The English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870)
- The romance of the harem (1872)
- Siamese Harem Life
- Life and travel in India (1884)
- Our Asiatic cousins (1889)