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 Duhem
Born: June 9, 1861
Died: September 14, 1916 (aged 55)
Bio: Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem was a French physicist, mathematician, historian and philosopher of science.
Known for:
- The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory
- Medieval cosmology
- The origins of statics