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 Pycroft

Born: 1813
Died: March 10, 1895 (aged 82)
Bio: James Pycroft is chiefly known for writing The Cricket Field, one of the earliest books about cricket, published in 1851.
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