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.
Aristophanes
Born: 446 BC
Died: 386 BC (aged 60)
Bio: Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaeum, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his thirty plays survive virtually complete.
Known for:
- Lysistrata
- The Frogs
- The Clouds
- The Birds
- The Acharnians
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