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.
Christopher Dawson

Born: October 12, 1889
Died: May 25, 1970 (aged 80)
Bio: Christopher Henry Dawson was a British independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and Christendom. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century".
Known for:
- Progress and religion (1929)
- The making of Europe (1932)
- Medieval essays (1953)
- The dividing of Christendom (1965)
- The dynamics of world history (1957)