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.
Ferdinand Hoefer

Born: April 21, 1811
Died: May, 1878 (aged 67)
Bio: Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer was a German-French physician and lexicographer. He is now known for his many works on the history of science.