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 Baudelaire
Born: April 9, 1821
Died: August 31, 1867 (aged 46)
Bio: Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
Known for:
- Les Fleurs du mal (1857)
- Le Spleen de Paris (1855)
- The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
- Les Paradis artificiels (1860)
- La Fanfarlo (1847)
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