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.
Asa Mahan

Born: November 9, 1799
Died: April 4, 1889 (aged 89)
Bio: Asa Mahan was a U.S. Congregational clergyman and educator and the first president of Oberlin College and Adrian College.
Known for:
- Doctrine of the Will (1845)
- A critical history of philosophy (1883)
- A Critical History of the Late American War (1877)
- Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection (1839)
- A System of Intellectual Philosophy (1845)