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 Stevens Cabot Abbott
Born: September 19, 1805
Died: June 17, 1877 (aged 71)
Bio: John Stevens Cabot Abbott, an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.
Known for:
- David Crockett (1874)
- The Empire of Russia (1860)