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.
Johan Huizinga

Born: December 7, 1872
Died: February 1, 1945 (aged 72)
Bio: Johan Huizinga was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.
Known for:
- Homo Ludens (1938)
- The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919)
- Erasmus and the Age of Reformation (1924)
- In the shadow of tomorrow (1936)