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 Thomas Newton
Born: September 16, 1816
Died: November 28, 1894 (aged 78)
Bio: Sir Charles Thomas Newton KCB was a British archaeologist. He was made KCB in 1887.
Known for:
- Travels and Discoveries in the Levant (1865)
- Essays on art and archæology (1880)
- Images of the Ottoman Empire