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 Henry Thurston
Born: October 25, 1839
Died: October 25, 1903 (aged 64)
Bio: Robert Henry Thurston was an American engineer, and the first Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Known for:
- A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
- A manual of the steam-engine (1900)
- Materials of Engineering (1883)