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 William Maitland
Born: May 28, 1850
Died: December 19, 1906 (aged 56)
Bio: Frederic William Maitland was an English historian and lawyer who is generally regarded as the modern father of English legal history.
Known for:
- Domesday book and beyond (1897)
- The constitutional history of England
- The forms of action at common law
- English Law And the Renaissance (1901)
- State, trust, and corporation