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.
Leonard Woolley
Born: April 17, 1880
Died: February 20, 1960 (aged 79)
Bio: Sir Charles Leonard Woolley was a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia. He is recognized as one of the first archaeologists to excavate methodically, and utilise records to reconstruct ancient life.
Known for:
- Excavations at Ur (1928)
- The Sumerians (1927)
- Digging up the Past (1930)
- Ur of the Chaldees (1929)
- The wilderness of Zin (1915)