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 Theodore Bent
Born: March 30, 1852
Died: May 5, 1897 (aged 45)
Bio: James Theodore Bent was an English explorer, archaeologist and author.
Known for:
- The ruined cities of Mashonaland (1892)
- Southern Arabia
- The sacred city of the Ethiopians (1893)
- Early voyages and travels in the Levant (1893)