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.
Margaret Gatty

Born: June 3, 1809
Died: October 4, 1873 (aged 64)
Bio: Margaret Gatty was an English children's author and writer on marine biology.
Known for:
- Parables From Nature (1855)
- The Book of Sun-Dials (1872)
- A Key to Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'