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.
Edwin Muir
Born: May 15, 1887
Died: January 3, 1959 (aged 71)
Bio: Edwin Muir was an Orcadian poet, novelist and translator, born on a farm in Deerness.
Known for:
- Scottish journey (1935)
- An autobiography (1954)
- The Structure Of The Novel (1928)
- The estate of poetry
- The complete poems of Edwin Muir
Edwin Muir Quotes