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.
George Amos Dorsey

Born: February 6, 1868
Died: March 29, 1931 (aged 63)
Bio: George Amos Dorsey was an U.S. ethnographer of indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a special focus on Caddoan and Siouan tribes.
Known for:
- Traditions of the Arapaho (1903)
- The Pawnee mythology (1906)
- The Cheyenne (1905)
- The mythology of the Wichita (1904)
- The Oraibi Soyal ceremony (1901)