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.
Gavin de Beer

Born: November 1, 1899
Died: June 21, 1972 (aged 72)
Bio: Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer FRS was a British evolutionary embryologist. He was director of the Natural History Museum, London, president of the Linnean Society of London, and received the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution.
Known for:
- Embryos and ancestors (1951)
- The development of the vertebrate skull (1937)
- Alps and elephants
- Homology, an Unsolved Problem (1971)