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.
Charles A. Beard
Born: November 27, 1874
Died: September 1, 1948 (aged 73)
Bio: Charles Austin Beard was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century.
Known for:
- Economic Origins Of Jeffersonian Democracy (1915)
- The Economic Basis of Politics (1922)
- An introduction to the English historians (1906)