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.
Frederic Harrison
Born: October 18, 1831
Died: January 14, 1923 (aged 91)
Bio: Frederic Harrison was a British jurist and historian.
Known for:
- Studies in Early Victorian Literature (1895)
- Byzantine history in the early Middle Ages (1900)
- Theophano, the crusade of the tenth century (1904)
- On society (1918)