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.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Born: January 28, 1834
Died: January 2, 1924 (aged 89)
Bio: Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications, though this list continues to grow.
Known for:
- The Book of Were-Wolves (1865)
- A book of ghosts (1904)
- Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (1866)
- The Lives of the Saints (1854)
- Mehalah (1880)