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.
Friedrich Hölderlin
Born: March 20, 1770
Died: June 7, 1843 (aged 73)
Bio: Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism.
Known for:
- Hyperion (1797)
- Selected poems of Friedrich Hölderlin
- Hymns and fragments
- Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin
- Odes and elegies