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 Charles Alexandre Louis
Born: April 14, 1787
Died: August 22, 1872 (aged 85)
Bio: Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis was a French physician known for inventing the "numerical method", a precursor to modern clinical trials, and for his work on infectious diseases and bloodletting.