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.
Ludwig Tieck
Born: May 31, 1773
Died: April 28, 1853 (aged 79)
Bio: Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, writer of Novellen, and critic, who was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Known for:
- Der Blonde Eckbert
- Der Runenberg
- Wake Not the Dead
- The Elves