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 Sumner
Born: January 6, 1811
Died: March 11, 1874 (aged 63)
Bio: Charles Sumner was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts.
Known for:
- The crime against Kansas (1856)
- The barbarism of slavery
- White slavery in the Barbary states (1847)
- The works of Charles Sumner (1870)
- The true grandeur of nations
Charles Sumner Quotes