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.
Bernard De Voto
Born: January 11, 1897
Died: November 13, 1955 (aged 58)
Bio: Bernard Augustine DeVoto was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West.
Known for:
- Across the Wide Missouri (1947)
- The year of decision, 1846 (1943)
- The Course of Empire (1952)
- The Western paradox
- The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto