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.
Ralph Connor
Born: September 13, 1860
Died: October 31, 1937 (aged 77)
Bio: Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon, or Ralph Connor, was a Canadian novelist, using the Connor pen name while maintaining his status as a Church leader, first in the Presbyterian and later the United churches in Canada. Gordon was also at one time a master at Upper Canada College.
Known for:
- The man from Glengarry (1901)
- The Sky Pilot a Tale of the Foothills (1899)
- The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land (1919)
- Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks (1898)