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.
Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes

Born: July 1, 1723
Died: February 3, 1802 (aged 78)
Bio: Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman, economist, and writer, was born at Santa Eulalia de Sorribia, in Asturias. He was an adherent of the position that the state held supremacy over the Church, often called Erastianism.