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.
Marjorie Hope Nicolson

Born: 1894
Died: March 9, 1981 (aged 87)
Bio: Marjorie Hope Nicolson was an American literary scholar. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1955.
Known for:
- Newton demands the muse (1946)
- Science and Imagination (1956)
- A reader's guide to John Milton (1963)