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 Gibson Lockhart
Born: July 14, 1794
Died: November 25, 1854 (aged 60)
Bio: John Gibson Lockhart was a Scottish writer and editor.
Known for:
- The History of Napoleon Buonaparte (1832)
- Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1835)
- Ancient Spanish ballads
- Reginald Dalton (1823)