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 Lydekker
Born: July 25, 1849
Died: April 16, 1915 (aged 65)
Bio: Richard Lydekker was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.
Known for:
- The royal natural history (1893)
- The horse and its relatives (1912)
- Life and rock
- The sheep and its cousins (1912)