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.
Harriet Hanson Robinson
Born: February 8, 1825
Died: December 22, 1911 (aged 86)
Bio: Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, who worked as a bobbin doffer in a Massachusetts cotton mill as a child, was involved in a worker's strike, became a poet and author and played an important role in the women's suffrage movement in the United States.
Known for:
- Loom and Spindle (1898)
- Captain Mary Miller (1887)
- Massachusetts in the woman suffrage movement







