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.
Hans Kohn

Born: September 15, 1891
Died: March 16, 1971 (aged 79)
Bio: Hans Kohn was a Jewish American philosopher and historian. Born in Prague during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was captured as a prisoner of war during World War I and held in Russia for five years.
Known for:
- The Idea of Nationalism (1961)
- Nationalism, its meaning and history (1955)
- Western civilization in the Near East (1936)
- Reflections on modern history (1963)