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.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Born: February 19, 1815
Died: August 17, 1906 (aged 91)
Bio: Elizabeth Missing Sewell was an English author of religious and educational texts notable in the 19th century.
Known for:
- Amy Herbert (1844)
- Laneton Parsonage (1846)
- The experience of life (1853)
- Impressions of Rome, Florence, and Turin (1862)
- Ursula V1 (1858)