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.
Galen
Born: 129
Died: 216 (aged 87)
Bio: Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus, often Anglicized as Galen and better known as Galen of Pergamon, was a prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman empire.
Known for:
- On The natural Faculties
- On the therapeutic method
- Galen on food and diet
- Galen on antecedent causes
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