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.
Mary Augusta Ward
Born: June 11, 1851
Died: March 24, 1920 (aged 68)
Bio: Mary Augusta Ward née Arnold; was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.
Known for:
- Robert Elsmere (1888)
- Helbeck of Bannisdale (1898)
- Sir George Tressady (1896)
- Lady Rose's Daughter (1903)
- The History of David Grieve (1892)