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.
Edward Alsworth Ross
Born: December 12, 1866
Died: July 22, 1951 (aged 84)
Bio: Edward Alsworth Ross was a progressive American sociologist, eugenicist, and major figure of early criminology.
Known for:
- Sin and society (1907)
- The Old World in the New (1914)
- Seventy years of it (1936)
- The Principles of Sociology (1920)