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.
Norman Thomas
Born: November 20, 1884
Died: December 19, 1968 (aged 84)
Bio: Norman Mattoon Thomas was an American Presbyterian minister who achieved fame as a socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
Known for:
- Socialism re-examined (1963)
- Is conscience a crime? (1917)
- War as a socialist sees it
- Great Dissenters (1961)
- What's the matter with New York (1932)
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