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 Francis Egan
Born: May 24, 1852
Died: January 15, 1924 (aged 71)
Bio: Maurice Francis Egan was an American writer and diplomat. He was a prolific writer and had a long and successful career as a Catholic journalist, literary critic, and novelist. He was a professor of English at two universities, and served as United States Minister in Copenhagen.
Known for:
- Confessions of a book-lover (1922)
- Everybody's St. Francis (1912)
- The life around us (1885)
- Lectures on English literature (1889)
- Songs and sonnets (1892)