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 Edwin Bessey
Born: May 1, 1845
Died: February 25, 1915 (aged 69)
Bio: Charles Edwin Bessey was an American botanist.
Known for:
- Botany for High Schools and Colleges (1880)
- The Essentials of Botany (1884)