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 Sidney

Born: June 22, 1844
Died: August 2, 1924 (aged 80)
Bio: Margaret Sidney was the pseudonym of American writer Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop. In addition to writing popular children's stories, she ran her husband Daniel Lothrop's publishing company after his death.
Known for:
- Five little Peppers and how they grew (1881)
- Five Little Peppers Midway (1890)
- Five Little Peppers Grown Up (1892)
- Five Little Peppers Abroad (1902)
- Phronsie Pepper (1897)