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 Humphrey Noyes
Born: September 3, 1811
Died: April 13, 1886 (aged 74)
Bio: John Humphrey Noyes was an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist. He founded the Putney, Oneida, and Wallingford Communities, and is credited with coining the term "free love".
Known for:
- Male continence (1848)
- History of American Socialisms (1870)
- Home Talks (1875)
- Bible Communism (1848)