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.
Marshall Monroe Kirkman

Born: 1842
Died: 1921 (aged 79)
Bio: Marshall Monroe Kirkman was an American authority on railways, who wrote extensively on the subject of railways.
Known for:
- The Science of Railways (1894)
- Building and Repairing Railways (1901)
- The Romance Of Gilbert Holmes (1900)
- Locomotive Appliances (1902)