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.
Gerrit Smith
Born: March 6, 1797
Died: December 28, 1874 (aged 77)
Bio: Gerrit Smith was a leading United States social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist.
Known for:
- Three Discourses On The Religion Of Reason (1859)
- No treason in civil war (1865)
- 3 DISCOURSES ON THE RELIGION O