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.
Karl Taylor Compton
Born: September 14, 1887
Died: June 22, 1954 (aged 66)
Bio: Karl Taylor Compton was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1930 to 1948.
Known for:
- The Battle of the Alchemists
- Scientists Face the World of 1942 (1942)