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 George Nicolay

Born: February 26, 1832
Died: September 26, 1901 (aged 69)
Bio: John George Nicolay was a German-born American who served as private secretary to US President Abraham Lincoln and later co-authored a biography of the 16th President. He was a member of the German branch of the Nicolay family.
Known for:
- Abraham Lincoln: A History (1886)
- A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (1890)
- The Outbreak Of Rebellion (1881)
- With Lincoln in the White House
- An oral history of Abraham Lincoln