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 Bird Grinnell
Born: September 20, 1849
Died: April 11, 1938 (aged 88)
Bio: George Bird Grinnell was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1870 and a Ph.D. in 1880.
Known for:
- The Indian Volume 1
- George Bird Grinnell papers