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 Cleland

Born: September 24, 1709
Died: January 23, 1789 (aged 79)
Bio: John Cleland was an English novelist best known as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.