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 Owen
Born: July 20, 1804
Died: December 18, 1892 (aged 88)
Bio: Sir Richard Owen was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Known for:
- On the Nature of Limbs (1849)
- On the anatomy of vertebrates .. (1863)