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.
Pierre Bayle
Born: November 18, 1647
Died: December 28, 1706 (aged 59)
Bio: Pierre Bayle was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, published beginning in 1697.
Known for:
- Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (1697)
- Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet
- Bayle--political writings
- Pensées diverses sur la comète