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 Needham
Born: December 6, 1900
Died: March 24, 1995 (aged 94)
Bio: Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham was a British scientist, historian and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science.
Known for:
- Science in traditional China (1981)
- The grand titration (1969)
- A history of embryology (1934)
- Heavenly clockwork (1960)