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.
Benjamin Kidd
Born: September 9, 1858
Died: October 2, 1916 (aged 58)
Bio: Benjamin Kidd was a British sociologist whose first job was a civil service clerk, but who, by persistent self-education, became internationally famous by the publication of his book Social Evolution in 1894.
Known for:
- The Science of Power
- Social Evolution (1894)
- Principles of Western Civilisation (1902)
- Individualism and after
- A philosopher with nature