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.
Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
Born: August 31, 1780
Died: May 29, 1855 (aged 74)
Bio: Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford GCH was an Anglo-Irish diplomat.