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.
James David Forbes
Born: April 20, 1809
Died: December 31, 1868 (aged 59)
Bio: James David Forbes was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology.