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.
Rudolf Erich Raspe

Born: March 26, 1736
Died: November 16, 1794 (aged 58)
Bio: Rudolf Erich Raspe was a German librarian, writer, and scientist, called by his biographer John Carswell a "rogue".