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.
Flora Tristan

Born: April 7, 1803
Died: November 14, 1844 (aged 41)
Bio: Flora Tristan was a socialist writer and activist. She made important contributions to early feminist theory, and argued that the progress of women's rights was directly related with the progress of the working class.
Known for:
- The worker's union
- Pereginaciones de Una Paria
- Peregrinations of a pariah
- Promenades dans Londres (1840)