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.
Peter Abelard
Born: 1079
Died: April 21, 1142 (aged 63)
Bio: Peter Abelard was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. His affair with and love for Héloïse d'Argenteuil has become legendary.
Known for:
- The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
- The letters and other writings
- Abelard: Ethical Writings
- Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans