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.
Franz Boas
Born: July 9, 1858
Died: December 21, 1942 (aged 84)
Bio: Franz Uri Boas was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".
Known for:
- Race, Language and Culture (1940)
- Anthropology and modern life (1928)
- Primitive Art (1927)
- The Mind of Primitive Man (1911)
- The central Eskimo (1888)