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 Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton
Born: June 27, 1786
Died: June 3, 1869 (aged 82)
Bio: John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton known as Sir John Hobhouse, Bt, from 1831 to 1851, was a British politician and diarist.
Known for:
- Recollections of a Long Life (1786)