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 Williams
Born: September 21, 1929
Died: June 10, 2003 (aged 73)
Bio: Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English moral philosopher, described by The Times as the "most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time.
Known for:
- Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985)
- Truth and Truthfulness (2002)
- Shame and Necessity (1993)
- Morality (1993)
- Utilitarianism: For and Against (1973)