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 Cotton
Born: December 4, 1585
Died: December 23, 1652 (aged 67)
Bio: John Cotton was a clergyman in England and the American colonies and, by most accounts, the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Known for:
- Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes (1646)
- The way of Congregational churches cleared (1648)
- John Cotton on the Churches of New England