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.
Geoffrey Barraclough

Born: May 10, 1908
Died: December 26, 1984 (aged 76)
Bio: Geoffrey Barraclough was an English historian, known as a medievalist and historian of Germany.
Known for:
- The Times Atlas of World History (1978)
- The Origins of Modern Germany (1946)
- The Medieval Papacy (1968)
- An Introduction to Contemporary History (1964)