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.
Harvey Cushing
Born: April 8, 1869
Died: October 7, 1939 (aged 70)
Bio: Harvey Williams Cushing was an American neurosurgeon. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first person to describe Cushing's disease. Together with Ernest Sachs, he is known as the "father of neurosurgery."
Known for:
- The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
- Five Hundred Years of Medicine in Art
- The Life of William Osler, V2