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.
Horace Walpole
Born: September 24, 1717
Died: March 2, 1797 (aged 79)
Bio: Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford also known as Horace Walpole was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.
Known for:
- The Castle of Otranto (1764)
- Hieroglyphic Tales (1785)
- Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762)
- The Mysterious Mother: A Tragedy (1768)
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