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.
Georgi Plekhanov
Born: November 29, 1856
Died: May 30, 1918 (aged 61)
Bio: Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of the social-democratic movement in Russia and was one of the first Russians to identify himself as "Marxist.
Known for:
- Selected Philosophical Works
- The Role of the Individual in History
- Anarchism and Socialism (1895)
- The Materialist Conception of History