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.
Edith M. Thomas
Born: August 12, 1854
Died: September 13, 1925 (aged 71)
Bio: Edith Matilda Thomas was an American poet who "was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement of the modern city."
Known for:
- In sunshine land
- A Winter Swallow, With Other Verse (1896)
- Fair Shadow Land (1893)
- The White Messenger, and Other War Poems (1915)
- The dancers (1903)