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 Richet
Born: August 25, 1850
Died: December 4, 1935 (aged 85)
Bio: Charles Robert Richet was a French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing.
Known for:
- Thirty years of psychical research (1923)
- The Natural History of a Savant (1923)
- The Pros and Cons of Vivisection (1908)