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.
R. D. Blackmore
Born: June 7, 1825
Died: January 20, 1900 (aged 74)
Bio: Richard Doddridge Blackmore, known as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century.
Known for:
- Lorna Doone (1869)
- The Maid of Sker (1872)
- Clara Vaughan (1864)
- Erema (1877)
- Mary Anerley (1880)