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.
G. D. H. Cole
Born: September 25, 1889
Died: January 14, 1959 (aged 69)
Bio: George Douglas Howard Cole was an English political theorist, economist, writer and historian. As a libertarian socialist he was a long-time member of the Fabian Society and an advocate for the co-operative movement.
Known for:
- The life of William Cobbett (1924)
- The Condition of Britain (1937)
- Europe, Russia and the Future (1941)
- The Corpse in the Constable's Garden (1930)