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 York Powell
Born: January 4, 1850
Died: May 8, 1904 (aged 54)
Bio: Frederick York Powell was an English historian and scholar.
Known for:
- Old Stories From British History
- Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror (1881)