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 Cowper Powys
Born: October 8, 1872
Died: June 17, 1963 (aged 90)
Bio: John Cowper Powys was a British novelist, lecturer, philosopher, literary critic, and poet.
Known for:
- A Glastonbury Romance (1932)
- Wolf Solent (1929)
- Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages (1951)
- Weymouth Sands (1934)
- Maiden Castle (1936)