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.
Niall Ferguson
Born: April 18, 1964 (age 61)
Bio: Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British historian from Scotland. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University.
Known for:
- Civilization: The West and the Rest (2011)
- The Pity of War: Explaining World War I (1999)
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