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.
J. G. A. Pocock

Born: March 7, 1924
Died: December 12, 2023 (aged 99)
Bio: John Greville Agard Pocock was a historian of political thought from New Zealand.
Known for:
- The Machiavellian Moment (1975)
- Barbarism and religion (1999)
- The ancient constitution and the feudal law (1957)
- Virtue, commerce, and history (1976)
- The discovery of islands (2005)