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.
Blanche Willis Howard

Born: July 21, 1847
Died: October 7, 1898 (aged 51)
Bio: Blanche Willis Howard was a best-selling American novelist who lived most of her productive years in southern Germany.
Known for:
- Tony, the maid (1887)
- Guenn; a wave on the Breton coast (1883)
- A fellowe and his wife (1892)
- Aunt Serena (1881)