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.
Henry Mills Alden
Born: November 11, 1836
Died: October 7, 1919 (aged 82)
Bio: Henry Mills Alden was an American author and editor of Harper's Magazine for fifty years from 1869 until 1919.
Known for:
- Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (1862)
- A Study of Death (1895)
- Magazine writing and the new literature (1908)
- God In His World (1890)