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.
Johann de Kalb
Born: June 19, 1721
Died: August 19, 1780 (aged 59)
Bio: Johann von Robais, Baron de Kalb, born Johann Kalb, was a Bavarian-French military officer who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and was killed in action while fighting the British Army during the Battle of Camden.