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.
Eilhard Mitscherlich
Born: January 7, 1794
Died: August 28, 1863 (aged 69)
Bio: Eilhard Mitscherlich was a German chemist, who is perhaps best remembered today for his discovery of the phenomenon of isomorphism in 1819.