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 Saintsbury
Born: October 23, 1845
Died: January 28, 1933 (aged 87)
Bio: George Edward Bateman Saintsbury was an English writer, literary historian, scholar, critic and wine connoisseur.
Known for:
- Notes on a Cellar-book (1920)
- A History of English Prose Rhythm (1912)
- A History of Elizabethan Literature (1887)
- The English Novel (1913)
- A short history of French literature (1878)
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