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 von Frisch
Born: November 20, 1886
Died: June 12, 1982 (aged 95)
Bio: Karl Ritter von Frisch, ForMemRS was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.
Known for:
- The dance language and orientation of bees (1967)
- Aus dem Leben der Bienen (1927)
- Ten little housemates (1960)