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.
Francis Thompson
Born: December 16, 1859
Died: November 13, 1907 (aged 47)
Bio: Francis Thompson was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but could only find menial work and became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years.
Known for:
- The Hound of Heaven (1893)
- Poems of Francis Thompson
- The Works of Francis thompson
- Complete poems of Francis Thompson