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.
I. Bernard Cohen

Born: March 1, 1914
Died: June 20, 2003 (aged 89)
Bio: Ierome Bernard Cohen was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the history of science at Harvard University and the author of many books on the history of science and, in particular, Isaac Newton.
Known for:
- Revolution in science (1985)
- The Birth of a New Physics (1960)
- The Newtonian revolution (1980)
- Science and the founding fathers (1995)
- The Triumph of Numbers