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 Payne Smith

Born: November 7, 1818
Died: March 31, 1895 (aged 76)
Bio: Robert Payne Smith was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church from 1865 until 1870, when he was appointed Dean of Canterbury by Queen Victoria on the advice of William Ewart Gladstone.
Known for:
- Prophecy, a preparation for Christ (1869)