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.
John Churton Collins
Born: March 26, 1848
Died: September 25, 1908 (aged 60)
Bio: John Churton Collins was a British literary critic.
Known for:
- Greek influence on English poetry
- Studies in poetry and criticism
- Ephemera critica
- Treasury of minor British poetry
- Illustrations of Tennyson