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.
Arthur Tansley

Born: August 15, 1871
Died: November 25, 1955 (aged 84)
Bio: Sir Arthur George Tansley FLS, FRS was an English botanist and a pioneer in the science of ecology.
Known for:
- Types of British Vegetation (1911)
- The British Islands and Their Vegetation Set