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.
Frederick Seitz
Born: July 4, 1911
Died: March 2, 2008 (aged 96)
Bio: Frederick Seitz was an American physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics.
Known for:
- The Science Matrix (1992)
- Electronic genie (1998)
- On the frontier (1994)