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 Jeffrey Roche
Born: May 31, 1847
Died: April 3, 1908 (aged 60)
Bio: James Jeffrey Roche was an Irish-American poet, journalist and diplomat. Roche emigrated as a young child, and grew up in Prince Edward Island, Canada. He came to Boston in 1866, and joined the staff of the Irish newspaper.
Known for:
- Her Majesty the King: A Romance of the Harem (1898)
- By-ways of War: The Story of the Filibusters (1901)
- The V-a-s-e & Other Bric-à-brac (1900)