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.
Richard Harding Davis
Born: April 18, 1864
Died: April 11, 1916 (aged 51)
Bio: Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War.
Known for:
- The Bar Sinister (1903)
- Real Soldiers of Fortune (1906)
- Cuba in War Time (1897)
- Notes of a War Correspondent (1897)
- Cinderella and Other Stories (1896)