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 Lamb
Born: December 3, 1764
Died: May 20, 1847 (aged 82)
Bio: Mary Ann Lamb was an English writer. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles on the collection Tales from Shakespeare. Lamb suffered from mental illness, and in 1796 she stabbed her mother to death during a mental breakdown.
Known for:
- Tales from Shakespeare (1807)
- More Tales from Shakespeare
- Othello
- Contes de Shakespeare