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.
Jacques-Louis David
Born: August 30, 1748
Died: December 29, 1825 (aged 77)
Bio: Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.
Known for:
- The Death of Marat (1793)
- Oath of the Horatii (1784)
- The Death of Socrates (1787)
- Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1805)
- The Coronation of Napoleon (1807)