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.
Carl O. Sauer

Born: December 24, 1889
Died: July 18, 1975 (aged 85)
Bio: Carl Ortwin Sauer was an American geographer. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957.
Known for:
- The Early Spanish Main (1966)
- Agricultural origins and dispersals
- Colima of New Spain in the sixteenth century (1948)
- Northern mists (1968)