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.
Maurice Cowling

Born: September 6, 1926
Died: August 24, 2005 (aged 78)
Bio: Maurice John Cowling was a British historian and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Known for:
- The Impact of Hitler (1975)
- Mill and liberalism (1963)
- The Nature and Limits of Political Science (1963)
- 1867 Disraeli, Gladstone and Revolution (1967)