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.
Derek Freeman
Born: August 15, 1916
Died: July 6, 2001 (aged 84)
Bio: John Derek Freeman was a New Zealand anthropologist best known for his criticism of Margaret Mead's work on Samoan society, as described in her 1928 ethnography Coming of Age in Samoa.
Known for:
- Report on the Iban of Sarawak (1955)
- Dilthey's Dream (2001)
- Iban agriculture (1955)