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.
Langdon Cheves
Born: September 17, 1776
Died: June 26, 1857 (aged 80)
Bio: Langdon Cheves was an American politician, lawyer and businessman from South Carolina. He was a U. S. Representative from 1810 to 1815, served as Speaker of the House in 1814 1815, and was president of the Second Bank of the United States from 1819 to 1822.