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.
Joseph Grew
Born: May 27, 1880
Died: May 25, 1965 (aged 84)
Bio: Joseph Clark Grew was an American career diplomat and Foreign Service officer. Early in his career, he was the chargé d'affaires at the American Embassy in Vienna when the Austro-Hungarian Empire severed diplomatic relations with the United States on April 9, 1917.
Known for:
- Ten years in Japan (1944)
- Report from Tokyo (1942)
- Sport and Travel in the Far East (1910)