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 Henry Hedge
Born: December 12, 1805
Died: August 21, 1890 (aged 84)
Bio: Frederic Henry Hedge was a New England Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist. He was a founder of the Transcendental Club, originally called Hedge's Club, and active in the development of Transcendentalism.
Known for:
- Reason in Religion (1865)
- Prose writers of Germany (1870)
- Metrical Translations and Poems (1888)
- Atheism in Philosophy, and Other Essays (1884)
- Ways of the Spirit, and Other Essays (1877)