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.
Robert Dale Owen
Born: November 7, 1801
Died: June 24, 1877 (aged 75)
Bio: Robert Dale Owen was a Scottish-born American social reformer who was a longtime exponent in the United States of the socialist doctrines of his father, Robert Owen, as well as a politician in the Democratic Party.
Known for:
- Twenty-seven years of autobiography
- Hints on public architecture
- Owen's moral physiology
- Beyond The Breakers