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 Peary
Born: May 6, 1856
Died: February 20, 1920 (aged 63)
Bio: Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. was an American explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909.
Known for:
- Secrets of polar travel (1917)
- Snowland folk
- The North Pole (1910)